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DENVER ALBRECHT (continued) -3-

Albrecht: in getting out of the plane than staying in. Thats what I understood anyway.
Mr. Ryan: When you flew across [inserted] / now [end inserted] how long roughly do you think it took you to get from
Englandacross to your drop zone, the point you want to jump... a couple of hours
Albrecht: I'd say 2, 2 1/2 hours, I'm not sure
Mr. Ryan: Well the jump takes place and you find yourself slowing down do you have any...
Do you think about anything other than [inserted] what you did [end inserted] whats ahead
Albrecht: No. well, not in this particular case - this is a good one
Mr. Ryan: What happened to you when you landed
Albrecht: Well there's more of that than, landing is actually when we were flying over the
coast of France CL|f QAJ 4 IU-Q by gettin near the drop zone when you had
the red light on, all the flak starts coming up and machine gun fire - you could
pretty
the skies are/red with tracers and coming in - yes sir, a plane on our left see
were
got hit - this is where we ME near the D2
Mr. Ryan: Did it go down
Oh yeah - it went down Albrecht:
Mr. Ryan: The plane
It was burning - when I was in the air I could see it burning - it was going in -
it went into the brink (sounds like) well into the
Were any of your friends on board then
in
Oh yes, there was a platoon out of my outfit/there
Albrecht:
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Mr. Ryan:
Albrecht:
Mr. Ryan: Which platoon
there was a push on the platoon of the personal headquarters I don * t recall Albrecht: •• *
of a mixed unit and I know some of the lads that got killed in that one
Snooky Smith is what we called him -just a kid - he happened to be one of them
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I remember - I aon * t know how many were in that plane a half a dozen, a dozen
I don * t remember - but some were still under the water after• # ••