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After the Battle magazine, No. 5, featured a lengthy article about Mr. Todd’s service during the Normandy invasion. According to the article, he was in the 7th Light Infantry Parachute Battalion of the 6th Airborne Division, and dropped out of a Stirling (first man out from his Battalion) in the early morning hours of 6 June. Landing in a cornfield about ½ mile from the planned drop zone south of Amfreville on the east bank of the Orne, he found the CO and reached the Battalion’s rendezvous in a quarry about 10 minutes after landing. His group set out for the Orne bridges, seeing airborne troops on the first bridge, and a burning tank beyond the second bridge. He himself greeted Major John Howard (whom he later portrayed in The Longest Day, and had a reunion with during the movie’s making) at Pegasus Bridge. A good article, wartime photos show him looking every bit the actor he later became, even sporting a handle-bar moustache !