The drooping of parachutists troops on the back of the Atlantic Wall in the night of 6 June 1944 should gain a strategic advantage to make the landing of the Allied forces successful. The aircrafts that carried the men of the 82nd American Airborne Division underwent a violent fire from the German Flak when they approached the western coast of Cotentin; some aircrafts were damaged and others slightly scattered. Around 1:00 a. m. a house was burning and the alarm bell rang, people of Sainte-Mère-Église attempted to put out the fire. The first parachutists fell on the town in a total chaos. Population sheltered in their houses and the Germans shot several parachutists. Outside the town Lieutenant-colonel Krause who commanded the 3rd Battalion of the 505th Pachutist Infantry Regiment gathered 158 men. The American encircled the town and captured Sainte-Mère-Église at dawn, they made about thirty prisonners.