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3.
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?
One officer on the first record day after invasion
showed great ingenuity in rooting or weeding out germans
as we moved forward. He enthused his company
& treated the whole thing as a game or a
hunt which it was in effect. He was a
tonic + was killed at the time I was
wounded

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?
I enclose a 50th Div Officers Dining Club
which many of the members took
part until invasion. Unfortuantely I
only know a few,

What do you do now?
I returned to the gas industry
in 1946 but am now premanently retired.

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