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Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day? My company commander was wounded & put
back on the landing craft, the second in command
killed & another platoon cmdr. killed. Out of 2 coys we had enough people to form 1 new one.

Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties? No

Were you wounded? Slightly - on one finger

How were you wounded?
I was only a few feet from an exploding mortar bomb
and when I appeared out of the smoke & debris my troops
seemed most astonished

Do you remember what it was like -- that is, do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?
No pain but only very slight anyway.

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even though
it may not have seemed amusing at the time? Or anything unexpected or out-
of-place?
I remember thinking at the time of landing
how many worm casts there were on the
beach, later noticing that they were not
worm casts at all but bullets from the
German machine guns

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, that struck
you more than anything else?
D+1 we were straffed by planes of the
U.S.A.F. as we entered St. Leger.