My now deceased father inlaw was part of this. He was in the Screaming Eagles as a glider infantryman (think it was the 317th). He did a combat landing in Operation Market Garden before D-Day They ran out of airplanes to tow the glider infantry but he and 97 other giys from their division went in to perform anti-armor duties. The reat if the division went ashore the afternoon of day 2 if I remember the story correctly. Being a BAR man and now inserted with a unit he did not belong to he got a lot of (you are short... go sneak into that hedgerow and see of there are Germans in there...why send you buddy when you got a new guy). At one point an officer peeked over something to glass out into the distance and took a round through the face. Then they got pinned down by 88 mm shelling and he went a little whacky after 10 hrs. He got up and began walking around. The fellas tackled him. He got shipped back to the field station where they gave him a sleeping pill which did nothing for him. They moved him back to the divisional medical aid station and gave him 2 more pills. He said he woke up in England and his time in the war was over for the time being. And since Truman dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese Empire....he did not have to rejoin the war effort....and it lrobably saved my paternal grandfather as well since he would have been over his malaria and jungle rot. Thanks Truman for doing the right thing and God Bless all the WW2 vets.
Operation Market Garden took place in September 1944, after D-Day.