Chapter 5 - Stand up! Hook up!

Normandy 1944: The First Crucial Days.

It was now Tuesday, June 6, 1944. Lieutenant Colonel Fritz Ziegelmann, intelligence officer on the staff of Division Commander Lieutenant General Dietrich Kraiss, had gone to bed just before midnight,[1] but before he fell asleep, the phone on his nightstand rang. A staff officer of the 84th Army Corps told him enemy paratroopers had landed in the area …