Lt. Col. Robert Lee Wolverton, CO 3rd Btn., 506 PIR, 101st Airborne (KIA 6/6/44 Normandy) and 1/Lt. Alex Bobuck jumpmaster of Stick#1 (POW June 6 until June 8, 1944). Col. Wolverton is checking the kit of 1/Lt. Bobuck as part of events staged on the afternoon of Sunday June 4, 1944 for filming by the Signal Corps at Exeter airfield. The aircraft is a Douglas C-47 #43-15087 "Lady Lillian", Stick#2, piloted by Capt. Matt J. Luoma of the 95th Troop Carrier Squadron, 440th Troop Carrier Group. A cruel twist of fate meant Lt/ Col Wolverton's feet never touched French soil. The commanding officer of 3rd Bn 506th PIR, was killed suspended by his parachute from an apple tree in an orchard just north of the hamlet of St Côme du Mont. On D-Day 1/Lt Alex Bobuck was the first one to jump off Lt. Col. Wolverton's plane but was captured when he landed on a German Command Post roof, he was liberated on June 8 by the advancing forces on St.Come-du-Mont.