[bandleader]

The”Big Red One”!They got mauled at Omaha along with The 29th.There are a lot of them buried on top of the hill(overlooking”Omaha.It’s a beutifully maintained US Cemetery.It’s ver near a place called St.Marie DuMont.When you look down at the beach,there is a ravine and then higher ground.This was where the 352nd Panzer-Grenadier divison commanded the beach.Almost all of the naval gunfire went right over their heads.Our guys were “sitting ducks”!GOD BLESS them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Little Bill]

A friend on mines father was a Company Clerk with the 29TH, landed at Normandy, froze his ass off in the Bulge. He spent more time as a grunt than the average Clerk, gotta do what you have to do I suppose.

My step fathers brother was on New Guinea with the 34th Div, if I remember correctly. He was Ninety at the time reminded me of VN.