[Magnum]

I did:

Jack Barnes, born Jack Cameron Barnes, from North Dakota. Jack joined the Army in 1942, at the age of 24. Upon hearing the possibilities of a newly formed regiment, he was moved to Toccoa, Georgia and activated along with his other counterparts as the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (501 PIR). Training and preparation culminated in the early morning hours of D-Day, June 6, 1944. The 501st PIR, along with the 101st Airborne and the British 6th parachuted behind the Atlantic wall to secure highways, railways and bridges – from Arnhem to the Willemsvaart Canal. This corridor was known as “Hell’s Highway”.

Ok, first of all, I was under the impression that this was the Barnes from Frontline. Now I'm not so sure. Unless I'm mistaken, the Fl Barnes was in the 82nd AB. However, this says he's in the 501st PIR, which is part of the 101st. That's not the important part though.

Everything else seems to make sense until you get to the culmination of his training part. Why does it combine Overlord and Market-Garden? MG isn't even in Spearhead. Nobody parachuted anywhere near Arnhem on June 6, 1944. What's up with that?

[General Tso]

It's probably a typo, or some idiot didn't fact check before they updated their website. Operation Market-Garden was in September 1944. Incidentally, it was the last time the 101st jumped into combat during the war. They were trucked around for the duration...


fire2:

[quote="General Tso":1ec98]It's probably a typo, or some idiot didn't fact check before they updated their website. Operation Market-Garden was in September 1944. Incidentally, it was the last time the 101st jumped into combat during the war. They were trucked around for the duration...


fire2:[/quote:1ec98]

I think at first they wanted Market Garden but then switched to the D-Day drops (maybe to feed of BoB popularity) and the guys writing the story got screwy in the head.