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There is a story from my father's fighter group (the 474th FG) that goes as follows:

In the morning hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944, there were many aircraft returning from Normandy that had been badly shot up that used the 474th's field at Warmwell for emergency landings since it was one of the closest airfields they would come to on the southern coast of England. One such aircraft, a C-47, landed at Warmwell with it's pilot dead from a .30cal bullet in his chest. The pilot was killed after dumping off his stick of paratroopers only to find two that had refused to jump. The pilot had to make a second pass over the drop zone to let the two stragglers off. That is when he got hit.

Does anybody know who the pilot might have been and the unit he was assigned to? I'm just trying to learn more about this incident.

Cheers, Gary Koch