June 6, 1944: The Allied invasion of Normandy would begin shortly before dawn. By then, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne, was already hours into one of the most remarkable World War II survival stories of our time. At 2 a.m. that morning, on the eve of D-Day, Langrehr had parachuted out of his plane, which was under heavy anti-aircraft fire, and crashed through the glass roof of a greenhouse in St. Marie Eglise. But on June 30th, he was captured by the Nazis, beginning the next phase of his odyssey. Henry was shipped by train at night to a work camp, where he witnessed some of the brutalities against Jews and was put to work in a mine. Knowing they would be worked to death, Henry and a friend made a desperate escape attempt. His story has never before been told. Whatever It Took is an extraordinary World War II memoir of survival, bravery, and hope.