Drugs: Out Of Our Heads
Mat Snow, NME, 27 September 1986
AFTER TWO false starts due to bad weather, the wide-eyed and jittery paratroopers swallowed their third load of benzedrines in three nights and flew off for Normandy that cool June night in 1944.
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