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ATLANTA 29th DIV
CALLAHAN, William Russell SC 1

0630 OMAHA CO F 116th INF. 29th Div.
DOG RED

Capt.

GURGLING RIFLEMAN
'‘After I got in, there was an 18" to 24" bank to the back of the
beach. Several riflemen were in my vicinity firing blindly into the
cliff-like hill to the right of Les Moulins. Suddenly I saw one of them
double up on his side and start jerking. I thought he had been hit bad
I managed to crawl over to him (had been wounded in side about 0730,
but says nothing about it of importance). First I heard him gurgling.
These gurgles I found to be curses. The source of his "wound" was sand
in the chamber of his M1 and he was holding the muzzle with both hands
and trying to kick the bolt open to extract the spent cartridge.

ENGINEER SHORE BRIGADE SGT.
"He was hit early in the face. It looked like one eye and part of th
bone over the eye was gone. This NCO was continually exposed, directing
the other engineer troops,replacing drivers on the bulldozer when they
became casualties, helping the wounded--some far less hurt than he.
I saw him throughout the entire day. Finally in the early afternoon he
stopped long enough for someone to put a clumsy field dressing on his
terrible looking wound. I recall several men dying of shock with far
less wounds than this man had, yet he continued to function and to be an
inspiration to me and to those that saw him.

Determination

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