6/6/2012 - By Staff Sgt. Rick Scavetta, U.S. European Command www.army.mil SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France — When Eugene Cook jumped into Normandy during the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, he landed several miles from his intended drop zone. Alone in the dark French countryside, the young 101st Airborne Division paratrooper from Georgia assembled his rifle, got his bearings and began looking for other Americans among Normandy's hedgerows. In the days and weeks that followed, Cook to...