More than 100 parachutists jumped from C-47 planes over France on eve of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, honoring the 101st Airborne Division that fought the Germans there during WWII
For most people, a summer trip to France is a chance to relax in beautiful surroundings and to savor the country's fine food. For Tom Rice of San Diego, it's an opportunity to relive the time he nearly died jumping from a C-47 Douglas airplane, then was shot at, again and again.
Rice, along with thousands of other, was in Normandy to mark the anniversary of the June 6 D-Day military operations that 75 years ago saw Allied forces turn the tide of World War II toward eventual defeat for Nazi Germany. "I was thinking, 'let's get the hell out of here,' because we were under fire," he told CNN."All the thoughts about what we're going to do, how we're going to do it just passed through my mind so quickly and I was so focused on getting out of that aircraft."Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images
"The pin was pulled," he recalled."You can't get the pin back in a hand grenade so I said, 'all right, give it to me.' I squeezed down on that thing like it was a part of my body, got everybody down and rolled over in the ditch and dropped it there.
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