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D-Day - 75 MM artillery pack
Nothing came down the road - skirmished
Coyle: American kid lying on the road - Krauts looked at body
after Turnbull came back
Moved up to the road - kid GI lying - Krauts came down the road
opened fire - got between us and Turnbull - mortars - Krauts
coming to the left - sent
Sent runner to the town
Tony: ring around command post - Ekman - went to a barn saw
Hable, wire from his pack went through his back
95% of 2nd battalion landed on drop zone
tripod on a light - 7 of them to form a T
Run out to light - turn on switch
Coyle: shot in the bivouac
THIS is it for Mrs. McClean's little boy.
Jack: South of St. Mere Eglise on the right, saw first planes
11-12 noon.
Sam Durbin injured and killed -
sprained ankle on the drop
Coyle: heard crash gliders on top of him - in pieces - went
forward - hit the ditch - stopped with the wing staring in face -
shock - half dead
St. Mere Eglise in reserve
Crawled out from half of wing - split a tree - glider came in
explosion crash - British glider, splintered, jagged edges -
just before dark on D-Day
McCIean - gliders had it pretty rough.
Keller and Beck spent night on rubber raft - in middle of field
Fr. Connelly address - Holy Cross Abbey, Cannon City, Colo.