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for this Allied Expeditionary Force him

saying

a word of introduction to quote you are
about to see. Is the story of the Nazi

defeat on the western front. So far as
possible the editors have made an account of

the really important mission in this campaign
I mean the enlisted soldiers sailors

and airmen the fight to every obstacle to
victory of course to tell the whole story

would take years but the thing would
be the same teamwork wins wars.

I mean teamwork among nations services
and men. All the way down the line

on the G.I.

And the Tommy to us best halves. I
mean me in this campaign was strong

resourceful and kind but he made

a few mistakes his greatest bunker was
this he thought he could bring our

partnership but we were welded together
by fighting for one great calls and one

great team team in which you were
an indispensable and working member

that's spirit of free people working
fighting and living together in one great

cause as service well on the western
front. We pray that spirit of

conscious will persist for among
the seed of the United Nations.

To you who are now living
in the love of sense

a future in the surrounding this Testament
is often. You know you may not call them

backwards of our age and the once thinness
of the little thread that made us then

the citizens of freedom. Was yoga and
the face of man when this begins. The

nation had gone mad and struck out everywhere
the compass new you have tied about

all of that away and left its wreckage out

a hundred posts John cost his files about
the globe his string drawn from the

smoking Saddam Lay and we had lost his
conquests Mota behind the barriers of his

arms. Along the channel where the sea
strikes France still the west wall concrete

Stoughton steel the mock the frail hopes
of the Patriots three. Wounded Preston

wasted on our strength almost like madmen
then we planned to bleach the wall and

smash the German spy. Well search
the coast if you would have liked.

Tween low flushing and the POV of chapbook
out I sought out the place of the

assault. Exit some title rain shadow flashing
off sand the wind Council the Belgian

coast but all same beaches were too small
and pips by the approaches. To and out of

the particular heavenly defend it
all resolved on the moment in on.

Planes could land on the Common Ground the
coast eventually all night and tides had

a good range and men was safe from wind.
So on five miles of still and not its

effect full cost of it would be assailed
by Ahmet Nations. Now our people bent to

the construction of us do you know Ray and
took the builders have not and that have

. Seemed all those days though the sun stood
still for you peoples full of rage and

gave out upon the US be out of
will. This is our people started.

Well.

I suppose if the battle of the North
Atlantic and going right things might been

considerably different. Isn't

a great time for all those merchant ships
naval escort Air Patrol. Because I had my

share of bad luck the last three
ships. From Sea good friends.

I remember reading somewhere that when

a seagull comes down on the actual oil
it's finished again you can't get off the

water and you know. You must have been

a lot of did she goes around the mining.
Of course we always saw it happening on

the whole man and yet it was well quite
real when I started that there's Marcus we

used my live toys out of some tunes game
but soon they became new beds and ships

carrying cargo as food and supplies
and weapons and men teams them.

I remember coming over the worst thing about
the trip was you don't know where you

were gone whatever it was should be

a stranger and nobody likes that. That ship
was loaded from stem to stern was said

sex around

a third day out things got. Like the
fellas that were all in the same ball.

Finally we got to Liverpool they had

a band of players and the band
full of shout I'm dreaming of

a white Christmas that. Tell you the truth
it was pretty corny but nobody said

anything because it was

a nice gesture. Funny thing on
the way over your felt like you

were the whole works you couldn't
help it but then all of the U.K.

You'd see things that made you begin
to realize you were just part of

a big proposition all kinds of things.

I was a pre-med student at Johns Hopkins
and something in life now I do know

a little something about anatomy and I say
it is scientifically impossible for the

body to stand up to the training we see and
absolutely possible muscles and tendons

and bone structure was not designed to
withstand that battering don't ask me how it

happens that we did stand up to it I don't
know it has no scientific explanation.

I didn't mean. To

a young man. So during the Army of
today I was extensional advantages and

opportunities such as physical training
foreign travel sports and many out of

facilities which are normally denied to
those engaged in the majority of civilian

occupations the majority of occupations
in civil life become anonymous to say the

least but in the darkest
buried that day no prospect of

a monotonous action John. So
Ben what good it's about.

While they know the need for lots of wall
in small and secret rows the palace get

to watch their work mature. Beyond. The job
and proud and confident stood calmly in

deep emplacements on the on the coast. The
wall is not yet one of. The weapons what

effect this on the maps and by see speaking
of the hidden by season by season all

our plans about those fuel man on whom the
mass of water rested with all its weight

ceased school. I used to wonder whether the
millions of people doing their various

jobs realize they were part of it all
paving the way for the invasion.

We kept bashing away

a German targets for us to steal an oil
the US Hamburg battle of. Things are

getting tougher every trip more ground
offenses more night fighters more cruise not

coming back.

We got away early in the mood
combined with the blank and come back

a lot of band we've still got the same
drugs they did we beat up aircraft bank to

it but the leaks are day and night twenty
four hour day. You don't page and some

from. Bill for the risk and they can have
to keep it secret. One man submarines

told Peter the commandos we use the molding
that comes from the central beaches for

analysis it had to be quick drying with

a solid clay foundation it would have
to support thirty ton times almost

a photograph nearly every field in front
real job of course was the core area but I

didn't know that no to Jerry the top stuff
the Maquis arms ammunition sabotage

cereals and so on then went over our shells
and talked them how to use it to filter

to specification but we haven't
have the least idea of what kind of

a gadget it was the only name it had was
mild but it was vital to know all about

the same bad types and we train the men
to negotiate those tides and then be

crushed wetting down German C.P.R.

In preparation for the day special study
of the weather along the Normandy curves

miles of wire netting to the beaches
seventy two hundred tons of petrol per day

with an underwater pipeline
to carry at the front

a white stars the emblem of liberation
triple inoculation growth as now you ships

poring through the stocks own ships that
listening to the German radio output for

fresh intelligence that was just part of

a pre-invasion work by December forty three
the pan itself was set and we took it

around for

a final discussion the same leaders approved
the plan. Oh Russian force advancing

from the east and invasion from the
west and then the date was set.

I assume command to shoot with the best
all round which are meant to ask someone

already been working for months in the
others I brought with me from entering.

We've gotten first

a master plan and then coordinate
every last detail around C.

And your plans. While this was going on
we led off with an air show designed to

make the landing axis soft as possible to
better the German communication and to

make certain we have control of
the. Domes are magnificent job.

He had Polish French jets All Souls' and
that they'd never win the mess about what

they did it would have been even they got
was modeling. As bomb but as seem to do

nothing but look down on French bridges
those days we used to ask each other if you

cut me good bridges lately Well finally
there was only one hole railway bridge left

over the same between Paris and the city.

In the late spring through the border towns
of England move the best made by off

patients to a precious He has

a palace or put away the offices whatever
all of absolute load up on the rolls to

be in paper loss to come. Across the child
on the way out of office of with code

contempt and stood beside
the guns had to be

a false what's rubbish from the right
generals were like us boys they looked across

the heaving sea and good they would be
obvious to us on the beaches and even death

himself would stand amazed. You have to
faint across the groaning of the sea came

before us of. Dogs of the great free peoples
of the gathered in the Agent thoughts

of England the crowd up on
the steep income but chips.

It was

a sunny sort of say the most in town to the
ships we got it down to times before of

course on the schemes and that kind of
thing they didn't tell us this was the big

show might have been just another exercise
some of the chaps crack gags they wasn't

but

a comic book. I think will guest the general
feeling was OK if this is it let's get

in there and get it over with which
it was going to minus even light was

a bust never could stand it well after

a bit I shipped on its place in the middle
of rest of the stuff and there we stayed

for days.

They gave us

a final briefing them we knew what to do
and how they told us where and when it's

a briefing. I listen to
every word voted on it like

a record. That. The City
Chiefs. Ever since I

became

a soldier they were going to write
this. Farther and then time. Out

of time and worn away their only few
hours left. Morning I'd have to face it.

To try to imagine how much fear I would
have you know that would keep me from doing

my job as far as everybody else
was wondering the same thing.

Nobody said anything official but all of

a sudden the ship got much busier and over
the amplifier the temperence at U.B.C.

Past eighteen thirty hours. Funny I don't
think I ever believed even after the

final briefing that the invasion
was going to come on and

a voice in the last bigger said Man I
wish to take the anti seasick bill should

take the first one now. Did it.

Gay.

And like the way we practiced it at the
time going to be in the end of the book

we're going to be

a British data second under the
first American just because the guy

a pilot cost up then in Santa Rita Good
luck on the radio. Seemed to sort of an

adequate thing to say.
Please let me bring in this

point to say just

a word about the name. From the moment
of embarkation to. The full for only on

T.V.

And our merchant fleet. They have the miners
bombard the coastal barriers marshalling

protected transports along the
coastline. And. Man the smaller as they

carry the soldiers to the beach on that
day there were more than eight thousand

ships and landing craft
on the shores. It was

a most intricate task for the
success of. The courage and skill.

Writers age and experience
to six working full.

Length

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Back in London and in a
few people knew it was

a well kept secret around
daybreak we called

a sponsor called and told to be at the
Ministry of Information at eight. And they

took.

A call up each other. On ask me
why I've never been pressed.

Something like Omaha friends You can happen.
To stand on how is the roughest spot.

To give you. Some months training. Been
told what to expect so it was like

a surprise for me and just
well I'm really happy.

And while they were pinned down lucky thing
yeah the beaches were gone better so we

got

a little more not share the same work
maybe come in the guys. Finally got. Here

a lot about how long it takes to
make battle hardened soldiers on

a green troops snag and then
the second one. That day.

So they pave the beaches without the Dutch
to cross the fields and beach the boats

the German kind of fits in the depths of
which Green Mountain normally do the three

elbow divisions first of all the Lambo not
unlike against most of us all and loud

across the Great a base of guns came
German reinforcements from but in

a voice played out the allies must be code
into the sea before another day had its

hold in history locked in battle beyond his
cached the first objective was to merge

all the beech edge into one and fifty miles
of men drive on together beyond the red

sands through the rubble.

Player

but I was it wasn't too bad getting to
it after light it stuck to funny traffic

like the field that was this team each
came slowly family keeping it like sitting

down like it being to and chuck in

a few hundred in Russia something they
killed us but we would killing more and then

the tickets puckers the fuck up they were
regular little Jedi fortress as if we

couldn't manage them and not only have to
wait but let company come on deck told

Mike until they support the Navy it was
still an astute Chuckie and shales ahead of

us you see days we advanced seven miles
and walked all day stunned trusting begin

next morning they had the news
you know to come to the V.C.

Send a date with joined up all
along the bridge it there was

a solid line forty five miles of it
would be difficult but I didn't play.

A lick. We didn't have to
do much navigating to get

just one of the convoys I was doing plus

a pull We waited around and then the ground
troops of Whistler's up told us about

summer cottage wanted removed and
then we got on. With it like Texas on

a camper and.

Something nice about a
beach and a beach I think

a beach chances and I
remember something nice like

a party you know picnic house me all day.
Go bathing suit the one I work you know

to look more like a freight
yard once we got going quite

a while we brought most of
blood right over the open be

a good practice didn't like we'd made up
as we went along we want to twenty four

hour shift ducks lights
rats robots also once

a Rube Goldberg stuff just kept pouring
in tanks trucks full ammo guys

millions of things.

We didn't think we'd spend to fifteen days
in the same field out. Of the war down

on this and the Germans in another
one off a monitor front of us

a little empty money in the joint. Each
shot Multan each other all the time. JUST

MAN You had to live in

a slit trench you don't endure it
take. You now and stand true from.

Life for breakfast. Came
up. In Brighton sausage

a course biscuits we've been
living on complex data.

You go through but. You know you
tired of it on a GOOD LUCK FOR start

a fresh bread and butter cup
of fresh take. Fifteen days

a long time to stay in one ice and good
morning. Yet so you think everyone's coming

straight here.

I can remember every case where every hand
especially the first. Ambulance brought

him in late one afternoon. I came over to
where he was lying and he looked up and

grand I asked him how he felt he said
something about that the German with the

machine pistol using him for

a dart board he was quiet and patient and
little bewildered you never been hurt

before he asked out of hiding was gone and
he passed out the doctor came over and

looked at his wound and swore he had no
business to be alive. We put him on the

operating table and that we could die
to keep swearing all the time he was

operating we couldn't stop the bleeding. I
remember the radio news that night they

said the casualties have
been surprising you night.

From.

I said the whole thing was Dear O.

Winston's idea that maximal prefabricated
Aba with everything on it except in

Africa but I wouldn't put it past him

a sort of idea he would have worked in
the end mildly they called it off feel

pretty good about it because I was to go
right from the sinking of the first ship

for the out of bright water and further
along to the west again should roll on I

have

a clue. I. Think it was
and on shore wind started

out not much but it got worse I'm loaded
on to the beaches got very tricky.

We had to dive on the Yank section the
other Harbor being right out of action and

when the wind dropped how mildly looked
pretty sick and after that John it was the

only plane Nama we had.
At the green tip of

Normandy the Tyler show made some nice on
needful thoughts was Michael is on the

job and you are and specially to his
forces into tight defensive groups so to

contest the wall our plans time upon show
all our strategy waited upon him to duck

some sodium Medical Center all across
Normandy to the coast or the North impatient

for the go ahead Jim feel
they cough the heavy away.

Your number back when
it seems like we took

a couple of days after we actually took
nineteen days to come back to the mines

thirty miles in about ninety two thousand
heteros and. I know why is it was nice

country like Connecticut pretty treason
or choose lots of cows and I saw. The

apples with two green teeter in them we had
it all fine with the P five I speak. It

got tough when we pulled up
on the outskirts of shit

a great difference and the artillery
really carried the ball but three days we

cycled sometimes to a pouring in

a point blank range of sights
Finally old Yvonne been dreaming

commanded the last of the spawn that's
after tell his men to fight that. We took

Cherbourg on June twenty fifth everything
was rosy except. Gerry said release me.

But right away our guys went the way cleaned
up and the way they tore into it you

could see that pretty soon to be working
for us. And if. We fought our way up the

peninsula now we'd have
to fight our way up.

And everywhere inside France we men of
the Maggie we are fighting to I wasn't

enough myself you've got to fall on in

a graph and I think she lines and even
today with the allies now and an unfolding

deal going into someone mountains Oh
France had the Germany gone bombs it was

easy in the mountains most reinforcements
will be made for many days factories and

we just would frequently disappear.
But the price we paid for it to us

fried food in the village or for

a during. The German slowed the even hundred
out of the twelve hundred population

and the place where. They were accused
to have ambushed German troops.

Every house was destroyed. Children
died in flames and the chance of them.

Yes the price we paid was very
great but I'll jump West don't.

Call is

a time to which the easy on the ripples
it slow way to the waiting Capitol. And

here the British struck

a stone wall of job. This was.
A knife. But rather was the

grinding of a little inch by inch for
what he had it was the job if you had

a quick break through

a lot of us saying that he had it by
the master his best ten of the twelve

divisions of his album out of troops S.S.

Men the young the cradle against the Veterans
of. We wanted him to fight the battle

because the future plans depended on him
standing where he was called the dust was

done every foot of ground was prices fall
by it most some call was to be the pivot

of the will.

Come was the first decent sized taken but
there wasn't any celebration as we knew

nothing of been settled Jerry was

a strong as ever. Said going to we don't
have to go right across the world just to

be them. Because it was just just
plain daft I wanted what I am

a little back home in Canada would look
like after beating like that quite well

anyway our tanks nobody started messing
in the south of the city we knew it was

a big do coming home. Can.

Show us become south of the post you know.
When we began moving forward I lot of

the lads say we're almost on
their own pretty and I've been

a Taliban I knew it wasn't on the run and
I was around when only lovely about the

battle shall think no pension there's no
outflanking no nothing I'm not this in

a bit

a bloody slugging match and to stand there
and give as good as we got even if we

couldn't get.

Beyond the rubble of the dust of call the
Empire to step out and especially. To

disengage cultural and he's
cutting it is straight still out

a way out of poppy that. West by simply
lower the base of his defense Americans

used and bent to fight on but out of that
would settle like the flame of freedom

from Buffalo to France but still
some fellow will see out oh wait.

For.

One minute is quiet with the birds and the
next minute calm sanitised come around

the corner gone by. Now but he says Leno's
time's gone so as the tank yells down

is taken off then when for three weeks did
somebody let the Ramadan the head man

the letter and with her an amount
of. I think back to the brakes.

Will seem to be able to remember anything
the French people. Beside the road kids

because stop to get candy too at that
time please bring in the crowds from the

fields far away to see what. Is
easier to look on in the face and

smile waved back at the Spanish
the. Morning we got in there.

That really was.

At random better going up and to drive
east and northeast us around and take the

job and clone divisions in the real the
phony plans to stop the outer did by

cutting its supply to the point where it
states now the west along the coast so I

think false exploded will take hoping to
achieve the sea back on hopes for the

smoking. For.

That. There's

a lot of places I rather talk about them
one thing that's where I got hit we've

been gone great up to it some of
the guys that have been saying I'm

a nice. And when I first German artillery
chorus. Pretty accurate to one hour later

I was short and. Well be old and we get
back with everything we had they were just

trying to stop us say they want to
come right through me and me I get

a belt in the face left side not keel. The
last thing I remember is looking up and

seeing always are you have time forms when
I heard them screaming up and I thought

geez I'm glad they're around I said.

I was sitting in front of the
intelligence office doing

a bit of somebody and it goes came
through saying the area Northwest

a more tame was packed with German albeit
in whist but still did it for six as we

kept it. Absolutely nonstop takeoff attack
planned refuel rearm and take off again

it was the same in every

a field in Normandy very briefly the day
the chaps was well you know where they are

going interrogation Lego
Packers were limited to give.

Three days a blast to
every kind of soldier was

a man every weapon for me was just the
small moment to find no sleep and that

things quieted down the working day
we stopped them cold nobody felt like

celebrating there was a tough
order out there I tried drinking

a whole bottle of cough medicine
that works fine I coached different

a plank. Contra tack which took us
by surprise student out into the

deceptive cabs fall down to call the photo
drop of false and left flank weaken. The

stage was set to outlays swept the Empire
troops together with the Popes job but

behind his back America brought
Arsenal. General that I'd. Found

himself within

a closing trap. We

.

Were.

I've covered them with the gun down on the
Clearing Station thousands. And all kind

. Of tough ones smile froze stiff on
their faces by shellfire. The plane

shows at too much already to tell you that.
That poker faced officer never lost the

poker face. Yes says the parachute troops
the old soldiers off the Russian front

I've seen them all. Hitler Youth babies
look alike they walked out of Lincoln High

expert killers smart alec with their talk
of rights under the Geneva Convention and

asking when we go to America.
The other guy crawled out of

a hole with his hands up all through
talking too much ready to swear he hated

Hitler all the time. Kids that knew
how machine gun work and nothing else

grinning like they were still on top and
hardly hold that trigger finger still

middle aged guys want to tell you about
the wife and kids. And they were through

killing when I saw. Him through getting
killed too some of them thought they were

lucky and others did. And some didn't give

a. I covered him down to the rear where it
was somebody who's job to find out what

made him tick but it wasn't my job to
figure them out. I just kept them covered.

Rather I never gave them more than the
Geneva Convention. And that was all.

Cracks ground down into the east wall how
do some of the opposite. Of the Germans

go to go to Federal Way and saw to treat
all stood hands up raised by roads all

little about smoldering. Still the tanks
ground on beyond the smoke into the

country. An absolute must for

a modern mechanized army traveling at
high speed and I division my job. When we

broke out of the shower broken into an
apartment had the situation well in hand

then for us everything went mad stark
raving mad one morning I woke up and gone.

Absolutely right off the map so we
rushed through in order for five hundred

thousand maps of the Orlando region
Iraq in due time to our heart the army

progressed far beyond the already on
region was off the map again. This was

a period of acute crisis for me
I give the highest priority to

a fresh order maps of the parasite refused
to be like the situation the final ball

came when it became evident that we were
going to bypass Paris and almost finished

it eventually we had to drop ten pounds
of maps to them by parachute it was

a very humiliating experience I'll be
glad when I get back to the Library of

Congress maps have some permanent bad.

Idea. Barry's sweet friend
songs of the. Nominee.

And suddenly and all the kids
go to Larry's city and take it.

After having equipped all division with
gangs guns. And jeeps that night decided to

give us berries to. Serve four o'clock in
the morning starts rushing on the roads

and interest on the Rye I'm going left
everywhere the American health textile

treat. Treat two hundred fifty kilometers

a day I think you're all

a dime to my grandchildren and. The

beginning of we in. What
could be could last two it's

the middle of the month the challenge
to really. Is there as well the same

with signed twenty five year
leases on the app. Frattini

police went on. Next day I get
stuck that was the day to when

a police car open fire on

a German to catch me on the plaza and
began to back out the city. After that it

seemed like was hanging from. How the flags
we had made of old ice axe in breaking

it didn't matter. The days later we had

a child coming. Out to. Me I

asked everyone you know. Just
the people came the French and.

When we got to the place there were
conditions. I kissed my house because he was

kind. To me. He began to
realize how unhappy you

are fine. And how necking to
be an eye on the So Christine.

The great was lost the Battle of France
was ending where it all suddenly another

D.-Day a stumble shaken to obvious struck

a better going to French along the Broadbeach
southern coast of France then the two

new obvious road like waves to join the
forces moving on the right. Beyond the say

Well for one hundred sites the Germans
launched that flying bombs and brought death

and destruction of the English. Valley
Adama's went about the task long since

a cyber war the right strategy as Americans
about just against the plots hugging

the channel God isn't enforced by desperate
foes Canadians were sent and up under

the sweep the British army
was awaiting Brussels.

People of Brussels laughed and cried and
threw flowers in their time content go by

Tommy and they meant to say and
no man happy. I suppose we were

no longer free. I remember wondering then
how the French Germans were in Korea.

I remember one day we were coming across

a big fat field didn't look like nothing
special. And so the guy says to me guess

what So I says what So he
says you're in Germany it's

a sign over there says My God but I thought
well I won't be long now. I want to

quit over the fall of Paris and Brussels
five run it being over by the first I

remember the point system for getting out
of the Army came out about this time I

began to think of that great shock straight
double breasted suit and remarkable I

was in the seventh coming up from the south
of France one day it'll turn and said

take

a ride with me I've got some prisoners for
you to go on many issues about twenty

thousand he said all German the British
units are and we Canadians were dancing in

the north when they came across a thing
I'd never seen before I guess it's

a flying bomb site the officer says that
really made me feel good prisoner told us

a new Is Jerry gang. And shows up white
it's America and it shows and back its

British and if it never shows up it's a
long one for every time they sent me

a moment always was my earphone gone after
that the Reus was boarded leapfrogged

five miles a year I wrote to the
old man in St Louis he owns

a men's store only better
cut prices and G.I.

Neckties and socks if you
want to be stuck with

a lot of military apparel someone asked
the Sergeant Major what he thought the

chances were for

a spot of lead Don't you worry about legal
aid he says we've got the Japs to finish

it. Because. It was

a terrific feeling crossing the German
border we were nothing could stop us.

Every line must somewhere. In South East
follow nothing lay between the British

Army and the German plane except to the
tower and so we made our plans to send

down to seize I told them at the bridges
and by looking at them and hold them for

the force that would sweep up like thunder
from the south. Thus where no line

existed were the right at
last to be crossed in false.

I'm such an ass that on right now. I
could see nothing but blue skies in the

country for the five minutes. One of the
boys was reading a newspaper and show me

a funny piece that. I couldn't off. Because
the phone came on the final run to find

someone you know running up now you got
to action station. I remember thinking.

What about

a bit of bad luck in that I'm tough
now and there was no way out. The

line is drop anonyma
me come down and go to

a place called Eindhoven Holland she goes
good get right diggin set up on the fence

perimeter and wait for the British Army
to come in we join them and head out for

and I make. The Bridge
and I made a knot in

a mop and we crossed the river and started
out for our name but we didn't get on

you as well as we did that we've got to
get so we put in everything you got that

was the worst I ever struck men with

a way to get on and we
couldn't get to. Them

we got out so. You short of
ammo and food that was the main

worry. I never forget the supply dropping
missions way journalists of them

away just came straight on into it. Towards
the end we knew the situation was bad

we knew we were handy and you know it
was possible we wouldn't get. More than

anything I remember the way everyone behaved
and you knew was the toughest fighters

became gentle and. Kind and
considerate to each other. I knew

a lot more about men out
of. The gardens died

out you know. Then we knew the greatest
gallantry was not enough to cross the final

bridge. And now no charts remain to us
direct assault against the sea would be the

only way to carve our credit
was into the right. But first

a pup was needed for supplies we had but
sundering job and gun was controlled with

thirty cold miles of the shelter from twelve
to the sea the docks was still silent

all the parts lay dead

a useless city severed from the sea it would
stay dead until we cut our way through

the Great show so the battle for to free
the Astoria for our ships. I covered that

battle for the Associated Press. I only
wish I could have written the story with

the greatness of the men who fought. It was
vicious and fierce and fighting all the

way. The Canadians and the Poles hating the
south bank of the river the Royal Navy

and Marines and Norwegians charging kneedeep
in blood and water into the mouths of

the nine in short guns at Wesco pale.
Because the kind of fighting that makes

legends. And the minesweeping of the scam
afterwards. The greatest operation of its

kind in history. The cost of that first
ship in two and the problem was the lives

of thousands of our bravest men. I
reported it as well as I could. And

memory does that small in words.

I was alone on the first convoy then. Got
to the front I saw more of the supply

dumps and I like to see was one of the
nowhere stuff one can fly down in

a bloody nose that I made lots of ships
Oh no how many driving all day all night

saying in summer to keep away songs
like milk man keep those bottles quiet.

My job was to see to it that they
had in the tooth brush caught maybe

a book to read when they came over from the
east bank to the west bank of the most

for a little rice we brought them over one
company in a time because that was all

a regiment could spare from the line or any
one time somebody had tapped him on the

shoulder and said all right boy you go
on back across the river for twenty four

hours rest and here they were where they
could rest they just couldn't believe it

when they were up for just twenty four
hours without war everything was down to

essential counted out like dollar bills
storytellers were under one night's sleep

one day's hot meals one clean change of
underwear one clean pair of pants one shave

one hot shower one movie. Based I
wonder what was the best it. Was

a good chance for him or a ride
home. A hot shower right along like

a girl on the screen. Whatever it was all
of it was over by Mori they were gone

back with their one clean sort of
underwear the hot shower the brain share

a really good night's sleep back across
the muzzle of the playground. Shelves.

By that time we knew we were going to see

a winter campaign there is no way out of
it. Germans were dug in and every time.

It was plain that until we got

a lot stronger we weren't going anyplace
the squadron was operating whenever it

could it wasn't a lot of flying we were
I stop unfair to suppose you're having

a swell time in Paris my cousin room me
with all that curfew and silk stockings and

her chair and Perry. They called our end
of the line south we were having devoted

mountains with the American seven thousand
but it was very little warmth in the

south I recall with pleasure all the
Mediterranean where we had landed in

a waste but in the Marines to keep what it
was before I joined the army I'd thought

it was certain death to beguile women back
garden and live in it for the winter but

that's what we did the sergeant said Well
squirrels do it every year here but the

Dog Man machine guns as well there was no
heating up lessons of history I put on so

much under my uniform because of the bundle
to lift and I never smoked before but

pretty soon I found myself
moving as high as a pack in

a hurry but no more percentage of my
kind was no Mooney you look upon them be

fine alongside

a stranger who was in on something. Of

the line was a yard down pretty quiet
a lot of houses a gun of not stun

a military advance about to win one of
our offensive then one day I'm standing

guard in the shells to Topham it this was
it and I realized the shells were not

going to Berlin they weren't coming next
thing I knew. German tanks was the sense

of. Who is going the way.

The offensive rebounding took and
also suddenly force told on such

a sight as to the rugged Finley held instead
struck he got to fight it out through

the American lines and sent his tanks does
the driving toward the. Night of fog and

pale December Fost saw the beginning fall
saw the end he aim for about truly age

and all our plans held fire while we had
been tossed thanks to the job in the boat

.

One night I was every placement
new england plane ship

a pan. And next day they showed me an
airplane that I was tight jams being kicked

around. The other pits but mine was
being cut to ribbons dropping.

Things still sticks in my head is the
medics. Only weapon they had was

a needle but they were like wow it was
time. You know medic medic need always

be.

All Division got

a presidential side station the one
hand up the best don't even meet just

a cook I never forget that only ten and
runnin into the field kitchen and Holland

it neat if and I had any idea out. Operated
bazooka I said no when he said well

you're going to run Now son I did and how
the dog going up in the bush out the back

and I didn't get me and Jared tank got
interview later bust out and strike they

said it was a cracker jack
story. But if the drop of

a hat. We've been up
north where things were

a bit static so we were quite glad to be
moved down to the top side of the spot.

And then down through Belgium we noticed
how scant some of the civilians of that

trust. We held in reserve
for a week and then isn't

a selection. On account of we

couldn't get near coronation shore misunderstand
when you've gotten used to it all

the way since D.-Day and then
on December twenty fourth like

a Christmas present that
son come up to after

a while we was given him
the only one till again.

I. Think I. We stopped him

dead finally crossed his pony

a member we stopped him and we started
moving ahead again the rest of us.

Live. Rounds did

real back got out of filing spring his
great attempt was over and his army as it

had devoured such

a wealth of blood sags sought and was the
right to get out of it about God expose

and shock the German fronts with three
great architect so freedom it to fix the

final blow and pluck the peace and even
as they met we moved to act upon our

strategy we wished the photo standing like
that on the western bank of the great

Right now we could destroy it outsiders
falters open unprotected by any of its list

of. The cost of the gauntlet
challenging him to stand and fight.

We were taking the north of the Canadian
roundabout the rush mobile phone it's not

from Canada it was wet and filthy and I
nicknamed down the command Admiral tryna

go anyway the enemy put up some very stiff
opposition but actually this was just

what we'd have for it showed the generals
emotions about fighting for every foot of

his beloved all of them getting the best
out of his sense of strategy and every

German coming out side of the Rhine was to
make it easier for us on the thought of

bank and

a lot of the bunch of work going to Russia
known as the not to show I've seen in

this war. It

was one of the push the captain told me to
they see those Leno follows things like

that I was with the outfit that took luncheon
but I think they say it and what many

civilians in the streets and even the ones
that what they want supposed to talk to

one less we had to it was

a sixty five dollar rad effect and they
said I wonder how they have to figure out

that I mean why sixty five. We
could see the Cologne Cathedral

a long time before we got there that tower
was our objective was on the Rhine River

. We went fast and by the time we got into
town there wasn't to much fight left in

Cologne was mangled all
right but there were still

a few building standing and I was sorry I
thought of those front cities flattened

Anyway we got our objective now
we had to cross that river.

I thought I must be very short a man when
I put a sail is it a battle dress not be

a song about on the tracks and send us
across Belgium but rather talk about silence

risotto being sick and
so even I was sick as

a dog on the run but raged at
destination almost pain and as

a longing for breath to say Yeah I found
out how bloody knives kept under stinking

smoke free and

a lot London it was an experiment got
out of the wrong and it was good to get

drinks for the war

a guy. Already

forces getting the oil lamps on the east
bank in Iran but I was still nervous the

Germans had blown the bridges and we
were crossing it being fed when I was

a Get off my feet for two days for that
crossing I couldn't eat nothing but

a couple of the way bars it was going to
be D.-Day all over again thanks Chris.

America there it was sitting there big and
black I'm no architect but to me that

remark in Bridge was the most beautiful
bridge in the world. In the Army when

things go as planned that's wonderful but
when they go better than planned then you

think of the chaplains
we're going to. Lose

a break at night but you know we catch them
and the first guys over the river were

over and. Watch on the Rhine was
fun to watch that but a coin

a phrase but. We

got across that kind of thing was fun which
I mean I get. The prisoners have to get

their faces when they started to come out
but I just stood there looking up at them

and then off to back off on average one
of them looks at me. And says. Yeah.

Rear pocket was the first big objective
across the Rhine we had to have

a sealed off in the ground force of the
Raptor that after that they exploded in all

directions got the Jeremys up in pockets
and take them one by one that was

a program there and where
I could be carved up like

a Christmas turkey. Chasing
the box was getting

a little bit monotonous I have a
song I'm only learning how she's

a few shells an occasional
sniper rifle shot is

a silly kind of the fines I don't and
then one day the routine was broken came

across a prison

a walk up the ranks Yanks mostly and he
went mad on the sauce screech made Indian

war cry I'm on an on off
with the news last. Seen

a change going on so happy. When at one
point I told him president who's been

dying yes you know the news you know and
I'm quoting now. Once in this campaign the

old felt as though they had suffered

a major defeat. And I microstate out on
them trying to cheer him up but with no

time to lose yet he only had

a few hundred square miles about left
to scorch I'll jump on it I am up all

scorching fun. We were on the homestretch
got deeper all the time when we ran into

these displaced persons slave workers
they were saying I agree we're all over

Europe and Roger jammed with them but
they kept out of the way and give us any

trouble. If Allah said there's

a lot more than that have to be
reconstructed. I wondered what

was up with all the and see for
us and I didn't want to stretch

a bed is what I'd really call home. We
take in the Belsen concentration camp.

I'm not squeamish Sheehan amputations
operations deaths long before when the army

in forty one I was

a warden Astana all the arms and legs
all pulled out of the wreckage down in

Croydon. Quite used to it just
as different had it different.

I don't know any words big enough to make
you understand what we all felt like

saying and I'm proud of this is it I had
to fall out and be quick to sit in the

cold job. I'm not squeamish
the. Obvious one and

thank God. The government sent

a few of us congressmen over to see those
camps and if there's anybody left to

wonder that this war was worth fighting
Well I wish they could have been along

there it was right in front of us fascism
and wanted to bond to lead to wherever it

crops that I talked to some of the prisoners
the ones that had the strength to talk

their offenses with the usual nutty
crimes you know wrong religion wrong race

long into

a union are the wrong political party in
Germany it led to all were four hundred

camps like the ones I saw it was the
worst thing I ever saw in my life and I

wouldn't

a missed it for anything. When

I'm against a move in

a hurry that's where transport comes in
we've been flying in the stuff along with

the British Transport command since D.-Day
towards the end they seem to be moving

faster on the ground and we were
in the air. As well get off the

pocket of

a fellow hopes rose piled on the salting
flames and mocked the broken. Needs any i

million prisoners came in as with

a single sudden blow the job of us
smashed. Then our text drove through the

southern mountains where the fellow had
hoped to make his fiance final stand.

Russian stock on the end and cut the heart
from Hitler's empire and he himself will

plan to roll the out from pole to pole
banish like smoke among the polling will

upon the greenback So whatever else we
waited for the east and west to meet.

We liked up with the Russkies at
the Elbe River and hung around for

a couple of days with a
tommy gun a name then

a kind of cop didn't know any English so
I taught him to say my aching back he

taught me to Barry that means Cameron
We drank toast to Lend-Lease and had

a million lamps now a kind of
compound of pepper and gives

a toast to the great American soldier that
stopped me we did all right but I don't

like to think we would
have been without them.

We were going towards the Danish front brave
and filled in and the rock was sitting

in a million and

a half the rest of the north the fighting
was nearly over and our job was beginning

we've been training

a long time for the administration of
Germany and we were prepared for plenty of

trouble several times passive resistance
at something more violent you know where

wolves in sheep's clothing but as it turned
out most of them would decide what they

were to. They seem to think well
fed their disease was in the nines

the German woman looking at what was left
of the time said to me in the you've

given up the nine hundred forty.
None of this need to happened.

Or go.

One minute after midnight when the ninth
one thousand nine hundred forty five gun

stopped. Plus three hundred
thirty seven. Now it

starts all the arguments about who
won that war. Is what I say that no

country on earth that I want to lower So
what does that mean. That anybody who

wants to take

a bottle by himself is not
only post the nuts. I

spent four years in the infantry and I
saw my share during that time I only met

three men that like to fight and they were

a little cracked but had to be done now
that it's over I feel good except for one

thing all this talk about World War three.
These big pessimists the talk so easy

about another war just didn't see this
one or not but. We watched them bring in

some high up prisoners I dreaded to be
friends however. I was thinking of fellows I

know who bought crash shutdown machines.
I flew from the Battle of Britain.

I remember the faces some joke that Plato
I mean just the way they laughed off

topic. Seemed to be such a lot of them are

a menace. To

the victor belongs the spoils at the
base today. While one of the spoils.

Only this chance to build

a free world kind of and before.
Any last chance. Remember that.

Now the time has come to put off

a victory to the tests of peace in company
with many many laminates to sift from

ashes while the struggle. In
the rebuilding of a broken

a May we keep in our hearts
this ancient. Law of God and

I give it to the store and let any great
amount of ground to us also know that it

is not the beginning but the continuation
of the same until it is not it is

finished which you.