As Roy Bridgeman-Evans drifted down through the moonlit Sicilian sky, he could tell immediately that he and the rest of his men were in serious trouble.
They'd been dropped far too high, and the rugged terrain below bore no resemblance to what he'd been told to expect.
Worse still, the supply canisters carrying their weapons, food and explosives were nowhere to be seen.
It was the evening of Monday 12 July, 1943, and Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, was just three days old.
To the south, British and American troops were engaged in brutal combat as they battled to wrestle the island from Axis control.
