Why German Rear Units Were Baffled How U.S. Airborne Found Each Other In Dark Scattered Miles Apart

June 6, 1944. 0130 hours. Over the Cotentin Peninsula. 13,000 American paratroopers fall out of the sky in total darkness. Most of them land in the wrong field. Some land in the wrong country. By every rule of war that existed in 1944, they should have been finished before sunrise — picked off in ti