This is where he actually landed on the back side of the steeple and Steele and a second paratrooper got stuck on the roof . While the fighting was taking place, their sergeant came down just a few yards from the church, and was sprayed at point blank range with an MP40, the German soldier then moved to shoot the two paratroopers. Dying in agony, the sergeant pulled his.45 and before he fired, he flipped his wrist upward to give the Bullet an arc hitting the Kraut in the head saving the two paratroopers.