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- for Cornelius Ryan 3 -
Your name DUTTON

In times of great crisis, people generally show either
great ingenuity or self-reliance; others do incredibly stupid
things. Do you remember any examples of either from D-Day?
The boys on the whole were very tense but nothing
to discredit any of them , a cpl and a D.R. and
myself were working together so we started on
our first slit trench, had it about three feet
deep at dark, our first position was about a
mile from the beach, as soon as darkeness came
the dive bombers came in on the shiping, fire
from the ground looked like a wall of [crossed out] spaks [end crossed out] sparks
going up. our slit trench went down so far
I thought the boys were going to China and
real fast too
Where were you at midnight on June 5, 1944? in a half track
in front of two wireless sets. on board an LCT
waiting for [inserted] the final word. [end inserted], who would know what daybreak would bring
Where were you at midnight on June 6, 1944? a slit trench
with a remote control a mile from the beach.
and kinda scared.

Do you know of anybody else who landed within the 24 hours
of D-day, June 6, as infantry, glider or airborne troops,
or who took part in the air and sea operations, whom
we should write to? no.

PLEASE LET US HAVE THIS QUESTIONNAIRE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,
SO THAT WE CAN INCLUDE YOUR EXPERIENCES IN THE BOOK. WE
HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE YOUR STORY ON SEPARATE SHEETS
IF WE HAVE NOT LEFT SUFFICIENT ROOM, FULL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
WILL BE GIVEN IN A CHAPTER CALLED "WHERE THEY ARE NOW;"
YOUR NAME AND VOCATION OR OCCUPATION WILL BE LISTED.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP .

W.A. Milroy Lt.-Col.
Director of Public Relations(Army)
Cartier Square,
Ottawa, Ontario