
After surviving a German attack that killed most of his Royal Navy shipmates, Guy Byam arrived by parachute to cover Operation Overlord and Operation Market Garden for the BBC.

Paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions jumped with 125 to 150 pounds of equipment on D-Day, loaded down with whatever they might need to be self-sufficient until the linkup with seaborne troops or aerial resupply arrived. Time correspondent William Walton didn’t jump with a radio or machine gun components like some of his…