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CAPTAIN R. H. BROWN
HEADQUARTERS
506TH PARACHUTE INFANTRY
101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

It was taken by Lieutenant Stockton at the 61st General Hospital. It begins:

"I landed early in the morning of June 6th. I could find none of my men so
sped out to the north post to the Battalion assembly area. I thought I had landed
near Carentan as scheduled but 0700 hours found me only one and one half kilometers
from Cherbourg. I stopped at a French farmhouse when I discovered I had been landed
at the wrong place. They gave me the map from a book and I started south after
orienting myself.”