During the night of 5-6 June 1944, the Pathfinders were the first a lIied soldiers to set foot on Norman soil, the paratroops of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions fighting ail night until the 4th Infantry Division, landing on Utah Beach, Iinked up with them. German troops and defences, paratroopers’ eyewitness accounts, unpublished material, a superbly iIIustrated album.