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In times of great crisis, people generally show either great ingenuity
or self-reliance; others do incredibly strange or stupid things. Do
you remember any examples of either?

Do you know of anybody else who landed within the 24 hours (midnight
5 June to midnight 6 June) either as infantry, glider or airborne troops,
whom we should write to?
Jimmie Mill
14 Gladstone Terrace
Edinburg
This is the chap I mentioned on sheet 2 whose carrier was hit.

What do you do now?
[crossed out ] I [ end crossed out] Printer (Composing)

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."

Cornelius Ryan
Joan O. Isaacs
The Reader's Digest

I remember the grand sight it was seeing the hundreds of
gliders coming in, and that [inserted] first [end inserted] night watching the unfortunate
gliders burning in the fields.
A chap from Dumfries jumping off my carrier before we were
off the beaches to take a ring off of a dead German. all these things
flash through my mind. The French resistance men coming to us to help.
and the French [crossed out] [unintelligible] [end crossed out] women taking the coloured parachutes.

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