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- for Cornelius Ryan 2 -
Your name Elmer G. Shindle

Did you by any chanoe keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
No.

Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day?

MANY of my friends were killed or wounded during the day.

Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?
One told me he was going back to England and marry his English
girl when the war was over. Two others were about to fight when
I stopped them and told them they would get plenty of fight when
mthey landed. One was complaining to me that he shouldn't be
pthere, because he had flat feet.

Were you wounded? No

Do you remember what it was like--that is, do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even
thought it did not, of course, seem amsuing at the time?

I remember being caught in a crossfire of machine guns while I
was dressing someone's wounds, and putting my red cross arm
band up on one of the obstacles on the beach where I was, think-
ing this would stop the firing. Now it seems amusing. Another
amusing thing, the fellow who had the flat feet got wounded in
an embarrasing place, and while I was dressing his wound, he
kept telling me he should have got it in the feet, because they
were no good anyhow.

[left margin] was he medic?

Do you reoall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, which struck
you more then anything else?
I remember the only one who was any help to me on the beach,
the medical man from the L.C.I. we came in on. There were quite
a few near me, but they were so frightened they were hugging
the sea wall. They were from another outfit. This man was really
a hero and should have been decorated. I never did get to know
his name.