The Allies landed in Normandy as the sun came up on June 6th, 1944. A couple of hours before about 13,100 U.S. Army paratroopers from the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions jumped into the night inland of the Utah and Omaha beaches. The 82nd's mission was to seize the town of Saint Marie Eglise and the causeways off Utah beach. Ed Ruggero’s “First Men In” tells the story of how they did it and what it cost.