12/19/2021
Just a few hours after this photo was taken on June 5, 1944, this American Paratrooper, (pictured) will die making the night combat jump into France on D-Day.
Col. Robert "Bull" Wolverton, commander of the 3rd Bn., 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division is preparing to jump on Saint-Come-du-Mont, Normandy in this photo.
His unit was the same regiment to which belonged the legendary "Band of Brothers," Wolverston's Operation Market Garden and Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne.
Despite being killed before landing on French soil, Order of battle for the American airborne landings in Normandy,
Wolverton's legacy endured, particularly on the strength of a prayer spoken to the 750 men in his battalion hours before the D-Day parachute drop behind enemy lines.
---Mud
