Virgil Nez

*"Don't listen to Tibbet, Rosenfeld. He's fulla shit. As usual"* ―Nez jokingly tells Rosenfeld not to believe any word Tibbet is saying.

Virgil Nez is a steely-eyed Native American US Paratrooper of the 101st Airborne Division during 1944. As a private first class, he and 18 other paratroopers have been dropped into France, on D-Day, in order to take out a satellite tower in a Nazi-controlled church. But things don't go to plan and their plane is shot down en route. Nez along with paratrooper Jacob Rosenfeld was captured by the SS Paranormal Division and experimented in the CielBlanc Church.

## Biography

Nez was born in Arizona in 1921 to a Native American family. In 1942, He joined the U.S. Army and decided to be an Airborne paratrooper to earn 50$ a month. At this time he befriended Lyle Tibbet, a Italian American paratrooper and Jacob Rosenfeld, Jewish soldier. They were one of the original members of the 101st that trained two years for the invasion of Normandy, but everything changed in April 1944, when the men of 101st Airborne Division learn about the Allies Forces were losing the war to the advanced Nazi forces, President Franklin D. Roosevelt desegregated the United States Armed Forces in a will of manpower. So the black paratroopers of 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (also known as the “Triple Nickels”) were folded to the 82nd and 101st airborne (Becoming the first desegregated unit) to help participate in the D-Day invasion.

When the men of the 555th folded into the 82nd and 101st airborne Divisions, Tibbet, Rosenfeld, and Nez met two smokejumpers Private First Classes Charlie Dawson and Edward Boyce, Nez and Rosenfeld welcomed them with open arms.

## Before the invasion

On June 5th, 1944, the Allied forces launched their forces to prepare for Operation Overlord also known as D-Day, however Boyce along with this squad of 18 paratroopers are given a secret mission to take out a radio jamming tower located at the town center of the French village of CielBlanc. As the men prepare to jump behind enemy lines, Boyce scans to see the men, he spotted Nez and Dawson talking about the journal he is writing,  some of them that he used to be smokejumpers with and has been through so much to this point about proving the white man wrong. He also spotted Lewis Ford, a paratrooper that transferred to the 82nd Airborne Division and became an explosive expert for their mission.

Tibbet tells Rosenfeld that more GI's died in planes than before Nez playfully tosses a wet glob of chewed gum at Tibbet and tells Rosenfeld to not listen to him and he's full of shit. As the men talk to each other about what they are going to do when they get to Berlin, Nez asked Boyce if he has another stick and as Boyce digs a pack from his pocket the ride of the C-47 becomes shaky, causing Boyce to drop his chain; Tibbet grabs it quickly and bullies him for having a lucky charm. Due to a few months of knowing each other, Boyce’s performance as a soldier (From Tibbets point of view) left him unsatisfactory, making Tibbet and the other white paratroopers in his batch racially bully him. Nez despite knowing Boyce for a few months, he saw the smokejumper is good at hand-to-hand combat and decided not to get involved, Boyce asked Tibbet if he was finished running that Falmouth off his and gave the chain back or he would beat his ass on the plane. So he gives him his chain back said that he was just messing with him before Rensin shows up to remind them what is the mission and says there are gonna be a hundred and twenty Allied troops fighting on their way to the beaches but they can't without air support if the radio tower isn't by 06:00 am.

## Being shot down

*"Breakin' formation? They'll just pick us off! Why can't we jump right now!?" ―*Nez asked Sergeant Rensin, "Why can they jump right this instant?"

When it hit midnight, the C-47 started to rumble, the paratroopers heard deep thuds and the crackle of tracer fire and the plane was heaving back and forth tossing the men around violently. Rensin comes out of the cockpit of the C-47 and tells the men that it is just a "Kraut Hello" and tells them to sit tight until the light tells them to jump. The Navigator of the plane tells Rensin that they are taking too much flak but with quick thinking, Rensin tells them to break formation so they won't get hit by flak knowing that the paratroopers while a couple clicks south of their target. The C-47 suddenly descends 100 feet flak erupting all around as it yokes hard to the left into the clouds. Nez asked Rensin why they are breaking formation and why can't they jump this instantly. Rensin says that the light isn't green. This formation saved the men as the flak destroyed a plane beside them. He took the time to remark to his white paratroopers who had doubted him since day one that he was going to show them a good time.

Dawson, unable to hold his dinner, threw up on the floor of the fuselage before bullets from the AA guns pecked the floor of the C-47 and tore some men up like butter. This horrifies the men including Rensin and Ford because, a few days before Operation Overlord, the 101st and the 555th was giving more information about General Wilhelm Strasse although some men heard that the man was so intelligent that he upgraded the German Army weapons, vehicles, and even the soldiers to be ferior to the Allies. This myth became a reality and everybody including Tibbet were starting to panic but Rensin and Ford kept calm for their men, Paratrooper Private Murphy was so scared that got out of his seat before he was pulverized and was dead before he hit the floor. Rensin continues to tell everyone to sit down and tells them this is why they were given this mission. Medic Grunauer rushes to Murphy's lifeless body with his med-kit but finds no vitals, Ford tells him that the young man is dead and orders Grunauer to sit down before the right of the C-47's propellers exploded causing some of the debris to destroy the right of the plane killing three paratroopers.

The red jump light above the cargo door pops on and that is when Rensin orders the men to stand up and hook up. As Boyce and the men scramble to their feet and hook their chute lines to the anchor cable running along the ceiling of the fuselage. Ford tells paratroopers in the back of the ship to square the line and don't step on the dead and Rensin says to the remaining paratroopers to wait for green. As the light flashes green, more flak pierces to the plane and suddenly a huge eruption blows the cockpit door away sending it to a paratrooper's head and decapitating him. The front of the C-47 is gone is nothing but a gutted, flaming mass of shredded steel, and half of the roof about the men is now a gaping hole. The anchor line renders it useless. Some men fatally fall toward the back, burning themselves to death. Dawson and Nez quickly crawled themselves to the door as Rensin and Ford are pushing paratroopers out the door, Grunauer was first, then Tibbet, then Rosenfeld, Nez became third, Chase fourth, and Dawson fifth.

## Being Captured and presumed death

Nez, Rosenfeld, and Grunauer land a mile east of the drop zone of CielBlanc, the three tried to meet up with other paratroopers who survived the jump, however, they were ambushed by SS patrols. Nez gets wounded legs and Grunauer managed to escape to attack, leaving both men captured and were taken to the CielBlanc Church not knowing that they are getting experimented on.

When Boyce sneaks out and makes his way through the tower and to the church. He arrives at an underground section of the church, which looks like a prison. He hears muffled noises of people bound in small cells and hides as two inspectors arrive. Curious about the eerie sound coming from the cell, he peeks at it and sees a human and creature hybrid. Boyce goes further into the experiment labs to get more answers about the questionable creatures. A body bag moves right above him, so he opens it and sees a person drenched in serum, who is barely alive. He then sees syringes laid on a table and gets one to bring a sample to Ford. He suspects that the red liquid serum is responsible for the disfiguration of the bodies that he saw. Not far from where he stands, he hears a voice asking for help; willing to find out, eases to a screen, with his M1911 pistol ready, opens a curtain and sees a bodiless head asking for help. Horror fills his face because it seems too difficult to believe. Boyce even saw parts of Nez, disembodied head, and arm attached to half a torso, heart, and leg. No blood, and paraffin gauze dressing covers the incisions clinical.

The body parts suspended by rods and tubes connected to the autojector that are somehow impossible to keep him alive. His fingers started to move, heart beating, foot tapping on the bench. Suddenly Nez's eyelids snap open. His mouth stretches wide in a silent scream. Boyce stumbles bawarded in shock before he leaves and discovers that Rosenfeld is bound to a bed, which he tries to free but gets interrupted once German doctors arrive. He sees a dead soldier being injected with the serum, but it is ineffective, so they dispose of his body. Boyce pulls a massive needle out of Rosenfeld to save and free him. Both of them utilize a tomb to find their way out of the church, which they are successful at. It's presumed that Nez and the people who were experimented on died when the church was destroyed by the remaining allied soldiers.