It Was My War: I'll Remember It the Way I Want to

It Was My War: I'll Remember It the Way I Want to by Sefton, G. William. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780897451772.

Bill Sefton jumped into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, with the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne. At 1:30 a.m., he says, "the night sky was lacerated with streams of tracers from ground fire, groping for our C-47 lumbering 300 feet overhead." Everyone was jumping as the aircraft flew over the Drop Zone, toward the invasion beaches. As the last five men stormed down the aisle of the planes passenger compartment, Sefton shouted the realization, "Stop! Were over the ocean!" No one, says the author, had the slightest intention of staying on that plane, and thus he jumped, regardless of what lay below. It Was My War is written with a simplicity and humor that transcends the horrors of war. A former copywriter for the McCann-Erickson advertising agency in Chicago, Seftons skill with the language conveys the gravity of the war around him coupled with mission responsibilities described from a very human perspective.