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American private served with C Coy, 116th Regt, 29th Infantry Div, US Army during landings on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944
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REEL 1 Recollections of operations as private with C Coy, 116th Regt, 29th Infantry Div, US Army during landings on Omaha Beach, Normandy, France, D-Day, 6/6/1944: period in GB prior to embarkation; activities on board transport; lack of seasickness on board; personal morale prior to landings; approach to beach on landing craft; wading onto beach after damage to landing craft; under German machine gun fire on beach.
REEL 2 Continues: loss of equipment on landing craft; personal morale of troops on beach; company casualties; loss of comrade; reaction to time spent on beach; artillery support during advance inland from beach; reaction to noise on beach.
