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The landing target of the D-day invaders was a 50-mile stretch of shoreline in the middle of the Cherbourg--Le Havre crescent in France. On the night of June 5, the operation began as Allied paratroopers boarded planes and gliders. "O.K., let's go" was Eisenhower's direct...
What I found when I finally reached the seawall at the foot of the bluffs is difficult to describe. Men were trying to dig or scrape trenches or foxholes for protection against incoming fire. Others were carrying or helping the wounded to areas of shelter. We had to crouch or...
"MY UPPER JAW WAS SHATTERED; THE LEFT CHEEK WAS BLOWN OPEN." --Harold Baumgarten Baumgarten, 19, a rifleman with the 116th Infantry, was wounded five times during the battle for Omaha Beach
There were three or four others wounded and dying right near him. Sergeant Clarence Roberson, from my boat team, had a gaping wound on the left side of his forehead. He was walking crazily in the water, without his helmet. Then I saw him get down on his knees and...
The wounded soldier’s father, Louis W. Meeks, an assistant clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, was not in his office yesterday and could not be reached for comment.