My dad was a marine stationed aboard the USS Indiana somewhere around ‘44 - ‘45
I think my dad was supposed to land with the group that attacked Omaha beach but he was sent to the infirmary just before everyone shipped out so he missed the boat. He told my Mom that all but four guys from his division were killed in the assault and that sounds to me like it was the 29th infantry. I can’t find his DD-214’s and the National Personnel Records Center informed me that his records were probably lost in the 1973 fire.
Thank God for the brave men that fought to preserve our liberty. It’s a crying shame how it is being simply discarded by those that have little regard for the price that was paid by the greatest generation.