![]() POOLE, FOWLES and their men also install amplifiers to play combat noises, mortar explosions and the sound of soldiers cursing. In order to simulate a large scale assault, other planes drop 200 decoy paratrooper dummies which, upon landing, fire up flares and play rifles and machineguns recordings. A few seconds later, a second team under captain Frederick James 'Chick' FOWLES lands in the same area. ![]() ![]() Lieutenant Norman Harry POOLE becomes the first man to jump over Normandy. Mission : Protect the right flank, cut the South of the Cotentin Peninsula, seize the beach exits from UTAH BEACH and capture the town of SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE.Ġ011 hrs : The first Titanic team made of 3 men jumps from a Halifax above Cotentin and lands in a field 8km west of Saint-Lô. In the West, the 82nd (General M.RIDGWAY) and the 101st (General M.TAYLOR) U.S. ![]() Mission : Protect the left flank of the landing area and destroy the MERVILLE Battery. In the east, The 6th British Airborne Division (General R.GALE). From 0000 to 0100 hrs : The Pathfinders jump to mark the drop zones for the airborne troops.
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