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One of the men who parachuted from the sky oyer Normandy on D-day was a 29-year-old Anglican chaplain, George Edward Maule Parry. He was with the British 6th Airborne Division. Last week War Correspondent Leonard Mosley, who was with the same division, told what happened after that.

The paratroopers' task was to capture intact the vital bridges spanning the River Orne near Caen. Things went pretty well until one company was cut off by the Nazis. Most of the men were badly wounded and there was no one to care for them. Chaplain Parry volunteered to go and help. Under cover of darkness he crawled to the isolated position, found the medical post, helped dress wounds and cheer the men.

Then the Nazis broke through. They stormed the medical post, began to shoot and bayonet the wounded Britons. One soldier who escaped told how Chaplain Parry pleaded with them to stop.

Hours later British patrols recaptured the area. In the medical post every man was dead. Chaplain Parry, his body pierced by bayonet wounds, lay among the men he had tried to save.

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