It was like a death march. [WWII]

[**The following is in regards to the deployment of American paratroopers during the D-Day invasion of France.**] >At 2030 hours the men lined up by the planeload, eighteen to a group, and marched off to the hangars. “Nobody sang, nobody cheered,” [Webster](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Pfc_david_webster_506.jpg) wrote. “It was like a death march.” >[Winters](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Richard_Winters.jpeg) remembered going past some British antiaircraft unites stationed at the field, “and it was the first time I’d ever seen any real emotion from a Limey, they actually had tears in their eyes.” ________________________________ **Source:** Ambrose, Stephen Edward. “Look Out, Hitler! Here We Come!” *Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest*. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004. 64, 65. Print. _____________________________ **Further Reading:** [American Airborne Landings in Normandy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_airborne_landings_in_Normandy) [Private First Class David Kenyon Webster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kenyon_Webster) [Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Winters)