A mate of mine attached to the 22nd ind parachute Coy jumped from Albermarles into to Ranville.
He had one the Eureka Beacons attacthed to his legs to mark one of the DZ's for the main assualt. I think two Sqn's were 295 and 297
He was shot up pretty bad at a place called Devil's Corner a couple of days later as the chap
to his immediate left and right were killed!
There's an interesting link
here which shows their aircraft types, tail numbers, departure airfields,
codes, TOT etc.
