Of the 156,000 Allied Troops that landed in Normandy on June 6, 73,000 were American, and of those 73,000 only around 13,000 were Paratroopers, a combination of both the 82nd and 101st Airborne. Roughly 2,500 of those paratroopers would be killed, wounded, or declared Missing in Action in the operation. Mitchell L. Werner trained hard to be in the 82nd Airborne, and is part of the special force that was designated for the D-day invasion. On June 5th, 1944, he finally goes to war, but the cost of the War can be surprising. War takes many things, but sometimes it doesn't take one's life.
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