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- for Cornelius Ryan 3 -
Your name Woodrow Welsch

In times of great crisis, people generally show either great ingenuity or
self-reliance; others do incredibly stupid things. Do you remember any
examples of either? Yes I see men do both for fear is
man's greatest Enemy. You heard stories about men throwing
there guns and equipment that day which some of it is true but
the well trained solider held on to his essential equipment
and did the things he was trained to do automatically. if our on
long. That is the day I found out why? they trained us
so hard to run 300 yards on a sandy beach in England for
that was about the distance between the water's edge and
the Cliffs on Omaha Beach

Where were you at midnight on June 5, 1944? Somewhere on the English
Channel on L.S.T. 792 of the US NAVY Diamond fleet
I was the companies jeep driver

Where were you at midnight on June 6, 1944?In a fox hole just
outside of Vierville cold, wet tired and scared

Do you know of anybody else who landed within those 24 hours (midnight
June 5 to midnight June 6) as infantry, glider or airborne troops, or
who took part in the air and sea operations, whom we should write to?
Yes I knew many who landed that day
But where they are now or there
address I dont know for sure
M.Sgt. Ralf. Goode- Delmar Delaware (Big [?Z?])
Supply Sgt. Jack Mitchel-Bedford. Va.
S.Sgt. Roy O. Stevens Bedford Va
Geo. Crouch Bedford Va
There is also dozens of others from Bedford Va for that
is the home Town of Co.A.11 Inf. The French Govt.
put a monument made of the stone found on Omaha
Beach in front of the Bedford Court House ten years
after D.Day.

PLEASE LET US HAVE THIS QUESTIONNAIRE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT WE CAN
INCLUDE YOUR EXPERIENCES IN THE BOOK. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE YOUR
STORY ON SEPARATE SHEETS IF WE HAVE NOT LEFT SUFFICIENT ROOM. FULL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WILL BE GIVEN IN A CHAPTER CALLED "WHERE THEY ARE NOW;
YOUR NAME AND VOCATION OR OCCUPATION WILL BE LISTED.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

Cornelius Ryan

Frances Ward
Research, The Reader's Digest

P.S. I would be glad to talk to
Mr. Ryan in Agust Phone [?nu?]
at V.F.W. Past 1940 Broughton PA
OL.5-9918 or 918 Lebanon Ave Pgh 34 Pa