On D-Day, the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne was tasked with securing their objectives in an area of Normandy codenamed Drop Zone A. In this episode, we're heading back to Drop Zone A with a rare bloodstained jump jacket from the collection of The Gettysburg Museum of History that belonged to one of the men who landed on French soil that day.
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