Planes carrying the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions encounter heavy
anti-aircraft fire, further scattering the group. Pilots take evasive
maneuvers, increasing their speed and altitude. These manuevers, while
necessary, will also create hazardous conditions for the paratroopers
who would subsequently overshoot or undershoot their drop zones, some
by as much as twenty miles, if they survived the jump at all. The 82nd
and the 101st will be dropped over the Cotenin peninsula to cover the
right flank on Utah and Omaha Beaches. The British 6th will be dropped
near Caen to cover the left flank of Sword Beach.