(Authors note my grandads squad were all killed during a patrol during the end of 1942 in Africa but the army decided to put him in the 6th airborne division for d-day but moved to the 1st airborne just before operation market garden)

June 5th 1944
2100 hours
"COME ON CHAPS INTO THE GLIDER" shouted major Howard at this time Tommy had no friends but he had been training for months as a paratrooper he got on to the glider and was holding his sten sub machine gun a troop carrier pulled the glider into the air with it and then let go over the ropes over the channel Tommy had never flown before
1200 hundred hours
CRASH the glider crashed and had injured the pilots Tommy ran outside and jumped over the barbed wire into a shallow trench and shot a German he ran and and an mg42 had shot a man and injured a few others  Tommy through a grenade blowing it up Tommy ran onto the bridge  and saw major Howard laying wounded  Tommy ran and took the explosives of the bridge before it could blow up Tommy was all of a sudden shot in the arm and returned home a few days later