Thanks to everyone who answered my questions. I am afraid I was not specific enough. James M. Coleman 15103571 82nd Airborne, 505, 2nd Bn, Headquarters Company. He completed his parachute training at Fort Benning, GA in 1942. He arrived in North Africa May 10, 1943. He went to Ireland after Italy, (we have a letter from him in Ireland) 1. I believe snowfrog is right in stating that he met up with Patton in Sicily. He spoke of meeting up with him and his troops. 2. He spoke of hearing the bagpipes in a way that I thought they had come to help them. I always guessed that it happened in Normandy but I don't know. I know that when he jumped in Normandy he landed in a tree, and somebody cut him down. 5. The concentration camp that snowfrog mentioned can not be the one he was talking about because he was already injured during that time. He was shot September 1944. Could it have been in Nordhousin that he saw they people in the concentration camp? Information He lost his eye left eye at Nijmegen, Holland. He was near a machine gun section which was uable to advance because of fire from enemy automatic weapons. He crawled forward under a barrage of artillery, mortar and machine gun fire, to locate the enemy weapons. He deliberately exposed himself to draw fire and was wounded during this action. With great determination he returned to his own men with information that enabled them to destroy the enemy gun positions. He was injured in his hand and eye causing him to have to have his eye removed in Belgium. He insisted on going back to duty and left a Belgium Hospital for 2 weeks and went back to his company. He only had one eye at this time. He also had serious bouts of malaria. There is not much information on him from the Department of the Army before Normandy. One record shows him receiving his CIB in Normandy and another receiving it in Holland. We know this is incorrect. He made all four combat jumps but for some reason he did not receive his CIB until the Normandy jump. We have a newspaper article stating his combat jumps. New question. 6. We would like to know why he did not receive his CIB for his jump in Sicily. He received 4 Bronze Battle Stars. He made 2 jumps before he went to Ireland with the 505. He also jumped in Normandy and Holland. Are there records of the combat jump sticks? Any help will be much appreciated. Marva