Tom Rice always jumped first.
On June 6, 1944, the Coronado native sat on the floor of a C-47 cargo plane with 17 other U.S. Army paratroopers, flying across the English Channel in the early hours of the largest air, sea and land invasion in history. It was D-Day.
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