Beverly Jean MANLOVE

 

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ARMY SERIAL NUMBER17099551
AGE21 yo
DATE OF BIRTH25 July 1922 MISSOURI
STATEPawnee County KANSAS
FAMILYSingle
RANKSergeant
FONCTIONInfantry
JOB before ENLISTEMENTAttendants, filling stations and parking lotsKS
DATE of ENLISTEMENT31 august 1942 Fort riley KANSAS
COMPANYCompany I 
REGIMENT506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
DIVISION101st Airborne Division
DATE OF DEATH6 june 1944manlove beverly tombe
STATUSMIA
PLACE OF DEATHIn the Sea
DATA PLAN

Transport by a Douglas C-47 - type A-70-DL - s/n 42-100733 of 96th Troop Carrier Squadron
440th TCG - 9th AF

Dropping 19 paras 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Cie I) Mission Albany 16 - DZ:D (Angoville-au-Plain)
Lift-off: Exeter, Devon UK

Shot down by flak at 1:40 - 4 paratroopers could only jump from the plane before the crash (2Lt Floyd R Johnston, Pfc Niels Christensen, Pvt Raymond L Crouch, Pvt Leonard S Goodgal)

CEMETERYNORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY de Colleville

Plan du Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE
Wall of Missing
DECORATION
Purple Heart
 
Bronze Star
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STORY

Beverly is the youngest of the five children in the Manlove family. 

He has one brother and three sisters, the family lives on a farm in Kansas where his parents are farmers.
After graduating from High School in 1940, he found a job at a gas station until he joined Fort Riley in late August 1942.

He joined the 506th P.I.R. and the third battalion. He was assigned to Company I.


 
Camp Toccoa
Camp Toccoa

The training that begins at Camp Toccoa is the first step that will eliminate those who will not resist the hardness of the parachuting school.
These days and nights are punctuated between daily races (including the famous climb to Mount Currahee), walks, intense sports sessions, the path of the fighter, theoretical and practical courses on the profession of infantryman, weapons handling, shooting, etc. will lead men to exhaustion and beyond their limits; but they will come out as true soldiers of elite troops.

 

Camp Toccoa

Fort Benning

 

Early December is the transfer to Fort Benning for parachute jump training. The program consists of four one week phases.

The first week is reserved for physical preparation (week which for the 506th will prove unsuitable because the regiment comes with an exceptional preparation and fitness).
The second week is reserved for learning about folding, simulation of jumping from platforms (model planes, 10m tour, etc.) to learn how to fall.

The third week is the one of jumps from the famous frying pans, 80m high towers that perfectly transcribe the conditions of jumps.
Then comes the last week of the C-47 jumps, five jumps that will be crowned with the “wings” award, the paratrooper certificate.
Beverly will pass all of these steps successfully and leave on Boxing Day on a 10-day leave.

Returning in mid january 1943, the regiment trained in urban fighting techniques.
 
Camp Toccoa
Camp MacKall

In April, it is the start towards Camp Mackall where training takes an intensive turn, the jumps take place with equipment and weapons followed by three days in simulation of enemy territories.
On June 10, the regiment was attached to the 101st Airborne Division.
In early July, the 506th took part in large maneuvers in three states (Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana), where the fighting exercises followed the jumps.

The regiment then moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, until its departure day for Camp Shanks a few kilometers from New York to prepare for a departure for the old continent.
On September 3, Beverly and the regiment boarded the SS Samaria from where they landed on September 15 in Liverpool.
Camp Toccoa
 

Trains will take the men south of Hungerford in Witlshire and will then be assigned to their various quarters.
For Beverly and the third battalion it will be Ramsbury.
A rigorous training regime will begin in the camps and surroundings of the English countryside, complete with jumps and forced steps. Beverly becomes Sergeant during this period.

At the end of march 1944, the units participated in Exercise Beaver and at the end of April in Exercise Tiger.
On May 11 it is Exercise Eagle, where only the 101st Division participates and which will take place in conditions almost identical to those that the men will have the opportunity to experience on D-Day. they will embark in C-C47 with a flight time identical to what they will live over the sea and then towards the Drop Zones on the continent, and this will be the opportunity to work with the 9th Troop Carrier Command.

At the end of May, Beverly is preparing her package, the order has arrived to board the airfields. This famous day, so long awaited since its arrival in the Airborne troops is approaching ; all these training since 1942, all these efforts to finally experience what it has come to be. Beverly arrived at the Exeter aerodrome in Devon where the 96th TCS of 440th TCG was parked.

 
station exeter
Base d'Exeter

Beverly is moving into the camps prepared for the troops.
On June 3, paratroopers were notified of the departure date, but the bad weather pushed it back 24 hours.
 
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June 5 evening, Beverly heading to his C-47, he is the second from the left
 

D-Day is set for Tuesday, June 6.
It was 11:48 this Monday, June 5, when the C-47 42-100733 belonging to the 440th TCG and piloted by 2nd Lieutenant William H. Zeuner took off and joined the formation for setting up before heading to Normandy and Drop Zone “D”Located near Angoville-au-Plain, the drop time is scheduled for 0143.
The C-47 is in position 24 in serial 16. Beverly is in position 3 in her stick.
 
Camp Toccoa
 

The mission of the third battalion is to seize two bridges at the mouth of the moat and establish a bridgehead.

The flight over the English Channel was uneventful; the convoy arrived on the mainland from the east and was confronted with a cloud bank, and then tried to keep its course the formation was shot by the flak, the plane is certainly hit, it crosses the entire peninsula of the cotentin, passing the DZ and ending up above the sea. The jumpmaster of the stick seeing this went to the cockpit to make another pass on the Drop Zone.
The aircraft was hit again, returning to the coast.

Four paratroopers will succeed in jumping from the plane, the plane is hit on the right side, the latter has difficulty to keep its balance. 

The C-47 crashed at sea off  Pointe du Hoc .
Two of the paratroopers who jumped will end up with the rangers who will attack Pointe du Hoc on the morning of June 6, they will climb and fight alongside this unit.

In the weeks that follow, some bodies will be taken back by sea, Beverly will remain missing.

Crew  Douglas C-47

2nd Lieutenant William H ZEUNER Pilote Dead - Arlington Cem. Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania USA  
2nd Lieutenant Harry N. Jr LUMSDEM CoPilote Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer lumsden harry tombe
S/Sergeant Albert T MARGOTTO Ch/Bombardier Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer margotto albert tombe
Caporal William P BELLINGHAUSEN  Radio Dead - Sacred Heart Cem. Templeton, Iowa USA   
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C47 douglas

506th Parachute Infantry Regiment - 101st Airborne Division

PFC Newton P WEATHERSBY Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  weathersby newton tombe
PVT Keith K BRYAN Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am St-James  bryan keith tombe
Sergeant Beverly Jean MANLOVE Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  manlove beverly tombe
PVT George V FERNANDEZ Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  fernandez george tombe
PVT Robert C KINZY Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  kinzy robert tombe
PFC Bryant Lamar HINSON Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  hinson bryant tombe
PFC Harry L Jr BURG Parachutiste Dead - Cim  Am St-James  burg harry tombe
PVT Roy MEZO Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Cambridge UK  
PFC Alvin D POYNTER Parachutiste Dead - Frankfort Cem. Kentucky USA  
PFC Christopher C SMITH Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  smith christopher tombe
PVT Jesse M HAWKINS Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  hawkins jesse tombe
PVT George J KARALUNAS Parachutiste Dead  
Sergeant Victor A TURKOVICH Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  turkovich victor tombe
S/Sergeant James H JAPHET Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  japhet james tombe
PVT Edwin FINDER Parachutiste Dead - Cim Am Cambridge UK  finder edwin tombe
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INFORMATION SOURCE Aad.archives.gov - Francecrashes39-45.net - Bruno CADEVILLE
PICTURE SOURCEFrédéric LAVERNHE - Bruno CADEVILLE - Bruno CADEVILLE
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