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April 30, 1958

Dear Mr. Morecock:

Thank you very much for your letter of April 22nd, and for your
willingness to help us with Cornelius Ryan's forthcoming book about
D-Day. We have already had the good fortune of meeting General Purnell
of the 29th Division in Baltimore, and having heard from him about some
of the difficult and terrible surprises of the landing on Omaha Beach,
we are especially interested in your description of the difficulties en-
countered by your battery of the 111th Field Artillery Battalion. Mr.
Ryan is now in Europe trying to get the project under way there. However,
I know that I speak for him as well as for myself in saying that we will
want very much to have your story, especially since we have learned very
little so far about the real experiences of the artillery people on Omaha
Beach.

As your source of information concerning the project may have stated,
Mr. Ryan hopes to meet and interview many of the people who offer us their
help. These interviews will very probably take place during the late
spring and early summer of this year, and we should like very much to know
whether or not you would be available for interview in or near Glen Allen
at that time. In the meantime, however, since the project is so very
large, we are finding it necessary to keep an individual file on each of
the people who offer to help us. We have prepared the enclosed list of
questions in the hope that they will help to recall long-forgotten memo-
ries and incidents, as well as provide us with a very good basic record
on which we can build the interviews which are to follow. If you are
willing to help us further, we should be very grateful if you would com-
plete the enclosed record and return it to me at your earliest convenience.

We shall look forward to your reply with great anticipatuion. Though
we should be happy to hear from you as soon as possible, please do not
feel pressed with this, for we do have at least a couple of months in
which to complete our research in this country. We are very grateful for
your good will, and for any further help which you can give us.

Sincerely yours,

Frances Ward
Research Department
[crossed out] no copy yet [end crossed out]

Mr. Bernard J. Morecock, Jr.
Route 4, Box 373
Glen Allen, Virginia

P.S. If you would be willing to send us [?yr.?] diary, scrapbook,
or pics. relevant to D-day, we'd be very, very grateful, etc.

Notes and Questions

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fitchyyboi

Handwritten P.S. Annotation confused me in the request to send memorabilia. Not sure what the first and third words are

dhuber23

missing words were "yr. diary" (abbreviated your)