Col. Wolverton (left) is checking the kit of Lt. Bobuck (right) in preparation for their upcoming jump into France; Sunday June 4, 1944.

   
- Lt. Col. Robert Lee Wolverton, CO 3rd Btn., 506 PIR, 101st Airborne (KIA 6/6/44 Normandy) and 1st Lt. Alex Bobuck (POW 6/6-8, 1944)

Equipment check

A Horsa glider lies flipped onto its back on the Cotentin Peninsula, France, where it attempted to land in support of paratroopers on the evening of D-Day, June 6, 1944. Troopers killed in the crash are laid out on the grass.

Casualty of wartime...

U.S. Army soldiers talking to a little French girl in Cerisy-la-salle, north-western France, after the Allied invasion of Normandy. July 25, 1944