Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
4:16 | Reed Williams remembers the 502nd being taken off the line after Normandy for re-training and re-outfitting before Market Garden, and the tense situation in England at the time.
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Reed Williams remembers the 502nd being taken off the line after Normandy for re-training and re-outfitting before Market Garden, and the tense situation in England at the time.
Reed Williams goes through the events of the afternoon before taking off from England for the Airborne drops over Normandy the night before D-Day.
Reed Williams and the rest of the 502nd PIR Pathfinders drop into Normandy in the early hours of June 6 as part of Mission Albany, the Airborne assault of Operation Overlord.
Reed Williams and the 502nd move into Carentan on D+5 and have a number of close encounters with German tanks and fighter planes.
Reed Williams recalls the drop of the 502nd PIR Pathfinders into a field Northwest of Eindhoven, The Netherlands during the opening landings of Operation Market Garden.
Reed Williams remembers an incident in the drop zone of Operation Market Garden, not long after the landings, involving a large quantity of rations and a downed General.
Photos depicting the 101st in action across France, Holland, and Bastogne.
