The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
It doesn't work like that.
As we used to say, it's only the sudden stop at the end.
The guy over Germany was a Lancaster tail gunner, the
gunner position was so small that they kept their chutes
in the tail of the plane and put them on in emergencies,
when his plane was hit he crawled out of the rear gun
position and went to put his chute on but it had already
been burned, so he just jumped, landed in a snow bank from
16,000 feet, when captured by the germans, (he broke both legs as I remember) they didn't believe him but later found
the remains of the bomber.
The 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment
He landed in a forest. He hit the top of a large fir tree and bounced from branch to branch until hitting the ground...no legs broken...just a lot of cuts and bruises.