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them dead. Seeing them gave a catch in the throat but not the sight of so many dead
Krauts who left their dugouts in the fields to die in ditches along the hedgerows.
They paid dearly for every paratrooper they killed. That day marching through Ste.
Marie-du-Mont in the hot sun was like going through a wild kind of [?]
Only the dead were Germans. The fifty dead piled up by Lieutenant Borden’s group
were beginning to stink and the millions of tiny streams of blood radiating from
their bodies had congealed into hard lines of red. Other groups of men entering Ste.
Marie-du-Mont after boarding on the tanks that left added to the German dead. Every-
one took in the sight of the dead Kraut sitting on a three-wheel motorcycle. His
head and vehicle seemed to be a part of the house he crashed into and another sight
of a dead Gerry his arms and hands dangling over his machine gun. A man turned his
head for another look. He almost thought he had seen this before -- perhaps in a
movie or an ad so perfect and real was this dead soldier draped over his weapon.
The church steeple had been blasted to kingdom come.”

That ends the excerpts from the George Goodrich chapter on Fox Company, 506 Para-
chute Infantry Regiment. It will all have to be checked. His positions seem wrong.
I am not sure of his names and he fails at times to orient himself correctly but
there is some good color in it.

Here’s a description of an illustration taken by a Lieutenant Shay who is the Aide
to General Kotta and it will fit in with the Kotta interview. This is in reference
to anecdote about the clearing of the Vierville draw. When Kotta told his group to
go ahead and clear the draw they were positioned which Shay called the Vierville
crossroads. To their left were some buildings and a hotel. Then there was a paved
road running right down towards the beach and halfway down that there was a quarry
on the right. It was in this quarry, by the way, that the 29th Command post was set