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The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty. The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Classic.
For Call of Duty: Black Ops achievement, see Achievements/Call of Duty: Black Ops.
For the character with Pathfinder as their alias, see Samara "Pathfinder" Jalal.

"The pathfinders like Private Martin will be dropped ahead of the main force, and will plant beacons on the ground to make the landing zones."
Captain Foley during the mission briefing.


Pathfinder is the second level in Call of Duty and Call of Duty Classic. As a pathfinder, Martin must plant a radio beacon to signal a drop zone and assist the inserted troops.

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Call of Duty-German guard on Pathfinder mission

Private Martin must kill the German soldier on guard duty (seen here) very shortly after landing.

As a pathfinder for the 101st Airborne Division, Private Martin parachutes into Normandy from a C-47 Skytrain aircraft and lands in a large field in the middle of the night, as Opel Blitz trucks and German Halftracks pass by on the road to the east. His objective is to find his fellow pathfinder, Sergeant Heath, and set up a radio beacon to guide in the rest of the airborne. He kills a German sentry near a large farmhouse and moves west along a path. He finds Heath dead, hanging from a tree by his parachute. Next to him is the equipment that he needs.

After picking up the beacon, Martin encounters two more Germans inside a concrete bunker, having a conversation. After killing both, he proceeds into the open field ahead, with more trucks and halftracks carrying German troops going by down the road not far from the field. He plants the beacon in the field and turns it on, waiting for airborne troops to land. Soon after, German alerts come over the radio in the bunker, air raid sirens are heard, and then anti-aircraft guns open fire. C-47s fly overhead, dropping U.S. paratroopers. The paratroopers untangle their parachutes and take up defensive positions behind the stone walls facing a set of houses on the southern end of the field. German riflemen and an MG42 gunner open a heavy fire on the American paratroopers in the field from the rightmost farmhouse. After a shell strikes the house, taking out the MG42, Martin and the others storm the house.

They clear the house, and then the backyard of German soldiers, pushing into the next occupied building. While clearing the kitchen, a truck full of German reinforcements pulls up, blocking the front door, and the paratroopers have to fight their way through. Upon reaching the backyard of this house, Martin and the others meet up with Captain Foley, who leads them into a set of trenches which will lead to the town of Sainte-Mère-Église.

Weapon Loadout[]

Starting Loadout
Found in Level

Transcript[]

Main article: Pathfinder/Transcript

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Trivia[]

  • After killing the soldier by the tree, the player can go into the house to the right and there will be a small health kit and a radio playing.
  • The game files reveal a design document showing a possibly different iteration of the level; where the player doesn't have an objective aside from getting to the end, and faces a Flakpanzer.
    D-Day Drop Design Document CoD1

    The design document showing another version of the level.

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