I own only Chris.

There will be more added to this Chapter, but it's been so long that I needed to get this out

My native language is Danish , so if there are any mistes in this Chapter I am sorry

The night was pitch dark and the airsickness pill Doc Pepping handed out like candy before they took off from the airfield, hit home with most of the men. The plane was quiet, some men where smoking, some men were praying and the rest were sleeping or going over the objective repeatedly.

I opted to remove the door on the plane and were laying on my stomach looking down on the invasion fleet, it was a grand sight and I realized the significance of the mission on which they were about to embark.

The planes were flying in formation, however once over the coast of France the Germans started to fire and pilots started to break the formation.

The Co-pilot took a direct hit and the pilot panicked, he was flying to fast and to low. He hit the green light and I ordered the men to stand up and hook on. After getting the Ok, I turned and stepped out into the night. The air blast prop hit and I lost everything but my weapon.

I landed behind a hedge rove and looked around. The place didn't look anything like the sand tables, so there was only one thing I could do, buck up and try to find some sort of landmark.

Finding none, I looked up at the sky. A shadow landed behind the next hedgerow and I decided to head that way.

"Flash" I whispered

"Thunder" the voice answered

I smiled, I knew that voice and since yje hike, back to the rendezvous point would be long and dangerous without my trusted M1, the voice was the best thing about this invasion.

So smiling I stepped out of my hedgerow and hugged the man the voice belonged to Lt. Speirs. I thanked my lucky star.

"Lt Speirs, what a pleasant surprise" I whispered

Speirs just nodded and motioned for me to follow him

We headed towards what looked like a village hoping to find some sort of landmarks or maybe a forgotten road sign.

The night was dark and the sound of the German anti-aircraft artillery penetrated the night. I walked next to Speirs and since we had only one weapon between us, I trusted Speirs to get me to where we needed to go.

We came across several dead paratroopers dangling from trees, shot before they hit the ground. I knew Speirs choose to ignore the death around him and I just turned my head and pushed on.

Walking toward the rendezvous point, we passed a group of captured Germans. I gave the young men a small encouraging smile.

"You know, you shouldn't give those men any hope. There is no more hope from them," Speirs said

I just shook my head I knew these people were our enemy, but they were still human beings.

I started to look around for Talbert and Grant, but I couldn't find them. Walking towards what looked like a CP I noticed a familiar face Buck I walked towards what looked like a small barn and found a few Easy men there.

I looked around for Harry, but Buck just shook his, Harry was still a no show.

With nothing better to do than wait, I wandered of and found Nixon. He was standing with his back to me bend over a map talking to Hester. From what I could gather, they were trying to compare with whatever intelligence they received before the invasion to the actual situation.

Hester motioned to Nixon to look over his shoulder and when he turned his head, I waved at him.

Nixon came over and gave me a hug. I hugged him back holding on to him relieved that my friend was ok.

"You ok" Nixon asked

I smiled and nodded "Yeah same shit, different day you know"

I stayed and talked to Hester and Nixon, trying to learn as much as I could. I pitched in with ideas were I could and Hester patted me on the back. I kept looking around, hoping for Harry to show up.

I hated feeling lost without him and I knew that there was a chance that he might not show up; there was a chance that Harry was one of those Paratroopers hanging from a tree, dead before he even fired a shot.

Winters, Lipton and Malarkey walked into camp and I smiled. I walked down towards were the men whom had made it were gathered and hugged the new comers.

"Where you been" I asked Lipton.

Lipton sighed and told us how he met winters and all that had happened on the way. Winters called our attention.

Someone tapped my shoulder and a runner from HQ handed me a piece of paper, Strayer requested my presence at HQ ASAP.

I handed Winters the paper and walked towards HQ. My first thought was what I did wrong this time. I had no idea what Strayer wanted. I knocked on the door to HQ, someone told me to enter and I opened the door. Strayer, Hester and Nixon were gathered at HQ I saluted and waited to hear what I was there for.

"Lieutenant Christenson, I heard you helped plan a surprise manoeuvre today, in fact there two told me that if it wasn't for you a vital bridge would have been blown up. So since Hester is moving up to battalion HQ and Nixon is taking his place as S3, we are lacking a good S2, so congrats lieutenant you get to spend your war gathering intelligence" Strayer motioned for me to join them.