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The 2nd Battalion landed at the predetermined location, the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Van Divoort, had a broken ankle during the landing, he asked the soldiers to push him with a trolley to insist on command, gathered half of the men, completed the preparations for the attack on Novel Opland, and was about to launch an attack, when he received an urgent order from the regimental commander, since there was no news from the 3rd Battalion, in order to ensure the completion of the main task of the regiment to capture St. Manyigris, an important transportation hub, the 2nd Battalion changed its original mission and replaced the 3rd Battalion to seize this important objective.

Van Divoort left Lieutenant Turner with 42 men to monitor the enemy at Novell Opland, and he led the rest of the men to immediately attack St. Manigris in the south, and Turner's squad fought tenaciously for eight hours to repel the German counterattack on the northern flank of St. Manigris and ensured that the main force held the key St. Manigris.

The 3rd Battalion landed at the predetermined location, and the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Krauss, gathered 180 men, led by local French guides, with the help of night cover, to capture Saint-Manyclis in one fell swoop, but due to the interruption of communication, it was impossible to report to the regiment in time, and then organized a defense with the 2nd Battalion that rushed to it, repelled many German counterattacks, and firmly controlled this important transportation hub.

The 507th Regiment was led by George? Commanded by Colonel Millis, it was planned to land on the west bank of the Mettler River, capture Bvan and control the road leading to the Mettler River from the northwest. Because the guide group was wiped out by the Germans, the airborne field was not marked, and most of the airborne troops landed in the swamp by mistake, and the 1st Battalion gathered only 100 people to attack Rafael. The commander of the 2nd Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Timms, gathered 50 men and attacked Ndireville, but due to the lack of troops, the attack failed and was forced to go on the defensive.

The landing of the 3rd battalion was extremely scattered and simply could not launch an organized attack. Although the commander of the regiment was captured the day after the landing, the remnants of the regiment, led by the commander of the 2nd battalion, Tims, concentrated near Rafiel with all their might to seize the bridge over the Mettler River, after several hours of fierce fighting. It failed to complete the scheduled task, but the regiment still captured several important heights, pinning down the German forces. undermined the solidity of the German defenses.

The 508th Regiment was commanded by Colonel Lindquist and was scheduled to land north of the Dover River. Occupy Banglape and control the crossing on the Dover River, with the 3rd Battalion as a reserve for the division. Due to the fact that the transport plane was fired upon by German anti-aircraft fire when it was airborne, it had to drop paratroopers at high altitude and high speed, resulting in the landing of the airborne troops being scattered.

Division Commander Li Qiwei, who was later the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army in the Korean War, recalled that he did not encounter his subordinates after landing in the air space, and fortunately did not encounter the enemy, but fortunately he quickly gathered some of the personnel of the division headquarters. It's just that the officers outnumber the soldiers, and he had to laugh at himself:

"I've never seen so many officers lead so few soldiers into battle."

The commander of the 508th Regiment and a small number of troops landed near Rafiel by mistake and were immediately transferred by the division commander to the nearest ferry to participate in the battle. Most of the 1st and 2nd battalions landed in a fortified German fortified area, suffering heavy casualties, the commander of the 1st Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Batchle, was killed, and the commander of the 2nd Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Shanley, led the remnants of the two battalions in a bloody battle and finally captured the Schaffdupont crossing. The 3rd Battalion landed 1600 meters southeast of the scheduled airborne zone, the battalion was very dispersed, and the first day was busy gathering troops as a reserve for the division. Failed to put into combat.

At two o'clock in the morning of June 6, the follow-up echelon of the 82nd Division of 220 men and some heavy equipment flew in by 52 gliders to reinforce it. Only half of them landed in the predetermined area. In the afternoon, another 1174 men and some heavy equipment were reinforced by 176 gliders, but the landing site was controlled by German fire and was forced to land in other areas instead, failing to meet the divisional assault echelon. By the evening of June 6, the 82nd Division had airborne a total of 8,100 men, with about 500 casualties and 750 missing, and gathered about 2,000 men to occupy the ferry ports of Saint-Maniglis and Scheufdupont. Failed to complete all of the division's missions.

The assault echelon of the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army consisted of the 501st, 502nd, and 506th paratrooper regiments and reinforced detachments, with a total of 6,500 people. Commanded by the division commander, Major General Taylor, on board 432 transport aircraft. It was planned to land north of Carentin to seize the four access roads behind Utah Beach and control the bridges and ferries on the Dover River.

The 501st Regiment planned to seize the bridge over the River Dover with the 1st and 2nd Battalions, and the 3rd Battalion as the division's reserve. Unfortunately, the 1st Battalion landed in the anti-airborne zone of the German army and suffered heavy casualties. Johnson personally commanded the remnants of the battalion of about 150 men, first to capture the sluice gates of the Carentin Dam, and then to gather some scattered men, in an attempt to seize the bridge over the Dover River, but was intercepted by the Germans on the way, unable to continue its advance.

Johnson used the naval liaison officer at the regimental headquarters to establish radio contact with the American cruiser "Quincy" on the sea, which was one of the few effective sea and land contacts on that day, and after repelling the German counterattack with the help of the cruiser's artillery fire, he saw that the number of troops was too small to seize the bridge as planned, so he directed the cruiser to bombard the bridge in an attempt to destroy the bridge, but unfortunately the range was too far to achieve the plan.

The commander of the 2nd Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Ballard, gathered most of the men, but because the Germans were stubborn and could not seize the bridge, they had to organize a defense with the help of favorable terrain, so they could not complete the mission of the regiment. The 3rd Battalion, as the reserve of the division, was originally the follow-up echelon landing area of the alert division.

The division commander found that the landing situation of the whole division was very chaotic, and in order to ensure the completion of the main task of the division, he ordered the 3rd Battalion to immediately seize the No. 1 access road behind the beach.The 3rd Battalion, under the command of the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Ewell, occupied the No. 1 access road at 8 a.m. on June 6, and repelled the German counterattack, and soon joined up with the landing force at sea.

The 506th Regiment was led by Robert ? Colonel Zinke commanded the plan to seize the first and second passages and blow up the two bridges near Leport. Due to the very bad landing situation of the regiment, only 10 of the 81 transport planes airdropped personnel in the predetermined area, and the rest were very far from the target, the longest distance was 32 kilometers. The commander of the 1st battalion gathered only 50 people. [,！ When he arrived at the No. 1 passage, he found that it had been occupied by the 3rd Battalion of the 501st Regiment, so he returned to the regimental headquarters and stood by.

The 2nd Battalion landed in the area of the 502nd Regiment by mistake, and the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Strayer, gathered 200 men, who were unable to communicate with the regimental headquarters due to the loss of the radio, still rushed to Hodenville in the afternoon as planned, and captured the second passage. The task of the 3rd Battalion was to capture or blow up the two bridges near Leport, due to the flat terrain of the scheduled airborne area, the Germans expected that the Allies would definitely be airborne here, and carried out an anti-airborne deployment, and the paratroopers who landed at the airborne field were under heavy German fire as soon as they landed, and almost all of them, including the main and deputy battalion commanders, were killed.

Fortunately, most of the planes deviated from the course due to misnavigation, and the paratroopers dropped fell outside the airborne field, and escaped this catastrophe, but lost command and could not assemble, only the battalion's operational staff Captain Schertle gathered 54 people, crossed the swamp, captured two bridges in one fell swoop, and prepared to blow up the bridge according to the regulations, and immediately blew up the bridge as soon as the German reinforcements appeared.

…… (To be continued)