Page 5

Regarding conversation I had with other troopers
before they became casualties, I was in a somewhat
sheltered depression about 5 feet deep with a fellow
from the 82nd. Air-Borne Division and we were speculating
about a building to our front & trying to figure
out some sort of covered approach to it from which
some smallarms fire had been coming. My 82nd friend
and I had picked a route to the right and he was all
eager to start and I turned partly around toward
him to see him crumple into a heap on the ground
with a bullet hole in his forhead squarely between
the eyes. He muttered not a sound & beyond a doubt
was killed instantly.

R.N.