"Anybody that wasn't scared or apprehensive at the time, they wasn't telling the truth. But I came to the point then, this wasn't no way to be acting. This might be the time I go see Jesus." (Video Interview, Part 2, 4:33)

Charles Luther Blount

Charles Blount War: World War, 1939-1945 Branch: Army Air Forces/Corps Unit: 90th Troop Carrier Squadron, 438th Troop Carrier Group, 9th Air Force Service Location: European Theater; Normandy, France Rank: Technical Sergeant Place of Birth: TN

Charles Blount was often the last person to see a paratrooper as he dove out of the plane over a drop zone. "I counted them as they went out," Blount says, detailing the events that took place aboard his plane in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. From Normandy to Holland to the Battle of the Bulge, Blount saw the beginning of three major campaigns for victory in Europe. Wounded over Germany in 1945, he would meet years later at a reunion the German Messerschmitt pilot who shot him.