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They had a Rendez - vous with destiny. Dead Man's Corner Museum. "On one of the most famous historical site of the 101 st Airborne " Shortly after sunrise on Tuesday, June 6 th , 1944, thousands of Allied troops stormed ashore in Normandy to begin the greatest amphibious assault in history. Earlier that morning, however, paratroopers and glidermen of the 82 nd and 101 st Airborne Divisions had been landed behind the German beach defenses, their mission to take and hold strategic points inland and to contain any counterattacks aimed at driving the invaders back into the sea. Starting at 00:15, in the pre -dawn darkness of D-Day Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor's paratroopers of the 101 st Airborne Division became the first Allied soldiers to set foot on French soil, and for 33 consecutive days they carried the fight to the enemy. This was the beginning of their "Airborne Trail through Nazi-occupied Europe" The 101s...

They had a Rendez - vous with destiny. Dead Man's Corner Museum. "On one of the most famous historical site of the 101 st Airborne " Shortly after sunrise on Tuesday, June 6 th , 1944, thousands of Allied troops stormed ashore in Normandy to begin the greatest amphibious assault in history. Earlier that morning, however, paratroopers and glidermen of the 82 nd and 101 st Airborne Divisions had been landed behind the German beach defenses, their mission to take and hold strategic points inland and to contain any counterattacks aimed at driving the invaders back into the sea. Starting at 00:15, in the pre -dawn darkness of D-Day Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor's paratroopers of the 101 st Airborne Division became the first Allied soldiers to set foot on French soil, and for 33 consecutive days they carried the fight to the enemy. This was the beginning of their "Airborne Trail through Nazi-occupied Europe" The 101s...