The Airborne
Set to be flown to Normandy (France), men of a US infantry paratroop regiment are shown inside a, C-47 transports of the 9th US Air Force Troop Carrier Command in England in the early hours of June 6, 1944. (Photo by Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)
The allied troops knew that to successfully invade France, they would need to drop the elite Airborne Division deep behind enemy lines and take out the German defenses inside waiting in the second line of defense. There were 60 German infantry divisions, and 10 Panzer divisions waiting behind enemy lines. You can see reference to the story of the Airborne in the show “Band of Brothers.”