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Your name SMITH, Harold Henkel

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 from D-day? Not on D-Day

Where were you at midnight on June 5, 1944? Asleep, dressed, aboard an LCI
somewhere in the English channel

"Where were you at midnight on June 6, 1944? In a little gully in a
pasture field a couple of miles from the beach

Do you know of anybody else who landed within the 24 hours of D-day, June 6,
as infantry, glider or airborne troops, or who took part in the air and sea
operations, whom we should write to?
Jacob Hay (then 1st Lt.) c/o Public Relations, B&O Railroad Baltimore, Maryland BN SL
Col. R. P. (Red) Reeder, Jr. USA Ret. West Point (US Military Academy) NY Rgtl C.O.
Herman Reed Rice Jr. (then Capt.) c/o Spring Mills, Lancaster, S.C. Co. Cmdr
Col. K. R. Lindter (then Capt.) Fort Benning Georgia Co. Cmdr
Tallie Crocker, 114 Alderman Lane, Aiken, S.C. Co. Cmdr
R. V. Daspit 507 Willard Ave. Houma, Louisiana Co Officer
Gerden Johnson 1327 Myron St. Schenectady, N.Y. Bn. Ex. O.
Mike Mihalik 40 Forest Rd. Murray Hill, N.J. Co. Cmdr
William Mills 23 White Lane Concord, N.C. O. Rgt, Hqs.
Ernest Phillips 633 College St. Cuthbert Georgia Rgt S.
Lt. Col. Glen W Zarger Comptroller Sec. Hqs. 7 Army APO 46 NY Co Cmdr
Col Archie Sproul Staunton, Virginia, (29th Inf Division)
Norborn P. Gatling, Jr. Tioge Lane, Pleasantville, N.Y. or 1 Wall St. N.Y., NY. Dn. G5 section

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

So far as I know I will be
available for interview, if you
choose, at most any time
during the next 9 mos.
Harold H. Smith
Lt. Col, USA Ret.
P.S. I was addressed at White Oak, W. Va. which is "ok" but my office and both
that and residence phone are Beckley, W. Va.