Jim’s Reviews > Unexplained Mysteries of World War II > Status Update

Brigadier General James Gavin, the thirty-seven-year-old assistant commander of the 82nd "All American" Airborne Division, had been handed a tough nut to crack--forcing a crossing over the Merderet River eight miles west of Utah Beach in Normandy. Gavin's men were to spearhead the full-scale attack by Major General J. Lawton Collins' U.S. VII Corps westward across the Cotentin Peninsula. The VII Corps was to rea