D-Day Illustrated Edition by Stephen E. Ambrose

Author:Stephen E. Ambrose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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I. At the preassault briefing, Walker had been told, “This mock-up shows the land behind the beach as green, but it won’t look that way on D-Day. The pulverizing from the bombing, naval shells, and rockets will turn it brown. And don’t depend on those village church steeples as landmarks, because all buildings will be flattened.”

II. “On our recent 1987 annual reunion,” Hamlett said, “O.T. told me his back still hurt because of my heavy boot.”

III. Pvt. Charles Neighbor, of E Company, was an assistant flamethrower who made it ashore and took over when his No. 1 became a casualty.

IV. Baumgarten was wounded five times that day, the last time by a bullet in his right knee as he was being carried on a stretcher to the beach for evacuation. He went on to medical school and became a practicing physician. He concluded his oral history, “Happily, in recent years when I’ve been back to Normandy, especially on Sept. 17, 1988, when we dedicated a monument to the 29th Division in Vierville, I noted that the French people really appreciated us freeing them from the Germans, so it made it all worthwhile.”

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