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A Most Irrevocable Step: Canadian Paratroopers on D-Day, the First 24 Hours, 5-6 June 1944 Canadian Military History Volume 13 Issue 3 Article 3 2004 A Most Irrevocable Step: Canadian Paratroopers on D-Day, The first 24 hours, 5-6 June 1944 Bernd Horn Michel Wyczynski Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh Part of the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Bernd Horn and Michel Wyczynski "A Most Irrevocable Step: Canadian Paratroopers on D-Day, The first 24 hours, 5-6 June 1944." Canadian Military History 13, 3 (2004) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholars Commons @ Laurier. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History by an authorized editor of Scholars Commons @ Laurier. For more information, please contact [email protected]. and : A Most Irrevocable Step: Canadian Paratroopers on D-Day A Most Irrevocable Step Canadian Paratroopers on D-Day The first 24 hours, 5-6 June 1944 Bernd Horn and Michel Wyczynski nder the cover of darkness, in the late awkwardly struggled with their heavy loads and Uhours of 5 June 1944, 36 C-47 Dakota leg kit-bags to assume their jumping positions aircraft transporting the main group of the 1st within each stick. Each man strained to hook Canadian Parachute Battalion and part of the up his static line to the overhead cable. The headquarters staff of the 3rd Parachute Brigade Dakotas now jerked and rocked violently as (3 Para Bde) took off from Down Ampney the pilots tried to avoid the deadly flak barrage Airport in England. The aircraft closed up in that filled the sky as they crossed the coastline. tight formation and headed toward the French The heavy fire forced the aircraft to break off coast. The steady drone of this armada filled the from their assigned flight trajectory. Many pilots fuselages and drowned out all other noise. The veered off their assigned flight trajectories and heavily-laden Canadian paratroopers, crammed dropped to altitudes ranging between four and in the restrictive dark confines of their airplanes, seven hundred feet in an effort to escape the shifted uneasily as the planes bucked and lethal hailstorm. lurched in the wake of the preceding aircraft. The atmosphere was subdued. Some paratroopers As the pilots desperately tried to get back on slept, or prayed, while others nervously went course, the navigators scrutinized the rapidly over their assignments. Corporal Harry Reid unfolding French terrain hoping to recognize gazed out a window and observed the ghostly landmarks that confirmed the direction of their silhouettes of the other Dakotas. “Then it hit final approach to Drop Zone (DZ) “V”. Meanwhile, home,” exclaimed Reid, “We were finally on our the paratroopers were thrown violently within way!”1 To many this flight seemed to take forever. the aircraft. Static lines became tangled and However, in the distant horizon the French coast equipment began to snag on the plane’s interior. was already within sight. Individuals cursed as they scrambled to stand up long enough to execute their pre-exiting drills as “Stand-up,” bellowed the Jumpmaster! Despite the jumpmasters barked out orders. this much anticipated order the paratroopers “The pilots took such evasive action because of the flak,” recalled one veteran, “that it Opposite top: Mass drop during Exercise Co-operation, resulted in some paratroopers not being able 7 February 1944 - preparation for D-Day. to get out of their aircraft.”2 Nineteen-year-old Courtesy of the 1 Cdn Para Bn Assn Archives paratroop Private Bill Lovatt explained that “As Opposite left: Paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute we approached the DZ the aircraft took violent Battalion conduct range work as lead up to the Normandy evasive moves and as I approached the door I invasion. National Archives of Canada (NAC) PA 209696 was flung back violently to the opposite side of 3 Opposite right: Esprit de corps built through shared the aircraft in a tangle of arms and legs.” Major hardship and experience. NAC PA206061 Dick Hilborn stated that “as we crossed the coast © Canadian Military History, Volume 13, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp.14-32. 15 Published by Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2004 1 Canadian Military History, Vol. 13 [2004], Iss. 3, Art. 3 14 https://scholars.wlu.ca/cmh/vol13/iss3/3 2 and : A Most Irrevocable Step: Canadian Paratroopers on D-Day Courtesy of the 1 Cdn Para Bn Assn Archives. Assn Courtesy of the 1 Cdn Para Bn Canadian paratroopers in their staging area prior to D-Day. Two individuals from the “Victory Rifle Platoon” stand in the background with their distinctive haircuts. They were actually two of nine paratroopers who had their hair cut to spell out the word “Victory.” of France the red light went on for preparing to flames spewing thick black smoke. The plane drop. We were in the process of hooking up when was losing altitude and even though they were the plane took violent evasive action…five of us nowhere near the drop zone, “the entire stick ended up at the back of the plane.”4 One airborne just ran out the door,” recalled the frightened officer conceded that on D-Day “we lost a number paratrooper. He conceded that “I couldn’t get out of people over the sea from evasive action who fell of the plane fast enough.”8 out.”5 Sergeant John Feduck was slightly more fortunate. “Before the light changed the plane For the others, the red light came on – the suddenly lurched,” he remembered, “I couldn’t drop zone was now only minutes away. Fear was hang on because there was nothing to hang on now forgotten as the paratroopers desperately to so out I went – there was no getting back in.”6 strained to steel themselves for the coming jump Luckily, he was already over France. that would allow them to escape this airborne hell. Mercifully, the green light flashed on. “Go!” Throughout the ordeal, the Jumpmasters hollered the Jumpmaster as he literally pushed urgently tried to restore order despite the hot, the first jumper out the door. He was followed jagged shrapnel that ripped through the thin skin by the remainder of the stick who were not of the Dakota aircraft. Many of the occupants were already wounded. The paratroopers’ heavy loads surprised at “how much the aircraft bounced hampered the exiting cadence causing the sticks because of the flak.”7 This extraordinary night to be dropped over a much longer distance. jump would forever be etched in the very souls of “With 60 pounds of equipment strapped to our the young paratroopers. “When I left the aircraft legs we couldn’t run out the door,” reminisced it was pitching,” stated Company Sergeant-Major Private William Talbot, a member of the anti- (CSM) John Kemp. “I was standing in the door,” tank platoon. “We shuffled to the door and just he explained, “There were 20 of us in the aircraft. dropped out.”9 I had 19 men behind me pushing. They wanted to get the hell out. The flak was hitting the wings.” Some pilots did not reduce their speed Private Anthony Skalicky’s plane was one of those which further complicated the already stressful that was actually hit. One of the engines burst into night jump. “The plane was going much too 16 Published by Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2004 3 Canadian Military History, Vol. 13 [2004], Iss. 3, Art. 3 fast,” recollected Captain John Simpson of the alone. “Going down I was surprised at the Battalion’s signal platoon. “When I went out the quietness and the darkness,” recollected Corporal prop blast tore all my equipment off. The guy Boyd Anderson, “I had expected to hear sounds must have been going at a hell of a speed. All I of shooting or at least some activity.”12 Engulfed had was my clothes and my .45 revolver with in the inky darkness the paratroopers were some ammo.”10 given a moment of respite. However, that relief abruptly ended. The solitude and peacefulness The majority of the paratroopers exited on the of the parachute descent were replaced by the initial run. Others were not so lucky and had to reality of airborne warfare. relive this hellish experience and endure a second pass over the DZ. “I was number 19 in the stick The lucky ones hit solid ground, albeit of 20 in my plane,” explained Corporal Ernie rather heavily. “When I landed flat on my back,” Jeans, a medic from Headquarters Company. “As reminisced one veteran, “I was in such agony that I made my way to the door, I heard the engine I cared very little whether I lived or died.” But, rev up and the jumpmaster pushed me back,” he “then the training took over,” he explained, “I added. “I thought to myself,” recalled a dejected immediately pulled out my rifle and at the same Jeans that “we had come all this way to go back time hit the release on my parachute. I placed my to England.” However, the aircraft race-tracked pack on my back and with the rifle in my arms I and headed back to the DZ to drop the two started to crawl toward a clump of trees which I remaining paratroopers. A few days later, Jeans could see very dimly. At this time I heard nothing, learned that the remainder of his stick had been not an aircraft, not a bomb, not a shot.”13 Like dropped off course on the initial run and were many that night, he was lost and alone. all either captured or killed.11 While many endured tumultuous exits, As Private Jan de Vries exited the aircraft others experienced difficult landings.
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