"In one plane, a soldier laden with his 90 pounds of equipment got momentarily stuck in the door. A 20mm shell hit him in the belly. Fuse-caps in his pockets began to go off. Part of the wounded man's load was T.N.T. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth in a shroud of bursting flame."
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Used with permission from Warren Tute, "D Day," (New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1974).
