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- for Cornelius Ryan 2 -
Your name SP. 3. FRED GORDON.
Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
No I did Not Keep A diary and am glad that I did not.
Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day ?
We had about 70 percent that were killed or that drowned comming ashore
Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?
All that I rember was that I was trying to keep the men spread out
they wanted to bunch up. There was not much we could do out there in the warter
with a full field pack on.
Were you wounded? Yes.
Do you remember what it was like--that is, do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?
All I Wondered was how out of all them meen there in the warter
how they singled me out. to be the frist man in the out fit to get hit.
there was no pain at the time I was just trying to get behind a wall that was there
Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even
though it did not, of course, seem amusing at the time?
I had A PFC in my squad and he would not stay down when he started to crawl
he would stick up behind. he got shot just beloe the canten
and he would not let them send him baok to the hospital where there was any nurses
on account of where he got shot.
Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, which struck
you more than anything else?
They were all good men one was no better than the other