It's fifteen minutes past midnight on June 6, 1944. A C-47 Dakota is just one of the Allied planes humming over the skies of Nazi-occupied France. Perched at the aircraft's open door is Captain Frank Lillyman, paratrooper pathfinder. His job? Light the way for the largest invasion in history. The aircraft jump light turns green and Lillyman leaps into the blackness over Normandy.
