Strange "weapon" being toted by the chap in the foreground of CC's photo!
Reminds me of the scene in "The Longest Day" when Lord Lovett's commandos are marching along with the pipes.
Amazing what success the airborne troops had that day, given the fact that they were scattered all over hell. Initiative and guts. In the 82d Airborne Museum at Ft Bragg, there's a simple urn of earth--the soil of free France, from Ste Mere Eglise, the first town liberated--given by the citizens of that town to the men who freed them. Very moving, when you know the story of Ste Mere Eglise. That's where Red Buttons hung from the church steeple in "The Longest Day".
