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Texas

For Cornelius Ryan
Book about D-Day

THOUSANDS OF MEN, ON LAND AND SEA AND IN THE AIR, PARTICIPATED IN TH
INVASION OF NORMANDY BETWEEN MIDNIGHT JUNE 5, 1944 AND MIDNIGHT JUNE
6, 1944. IF YOU WERE ONE OF THEM, PLEASE ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

What is your full name? Jack Fox
What was your unit and division? Medical Detachment, 8th Infantry
Regiment, 4th Infantry Division

Where did you arrive in Normandy, and at what time?
Utah Beach near St. Martin- de- Vaneville
0700 hours, 6 June 1944.

What was your rank on June 6, 1944? Technitian 3d grade (Staff Sargent)
What was your age on June 6, 1944? 26
Were you married at that time? No
What is your wife's name? Joyce E. Fox
Did you have any children at that time? No.
What do you do now? Plane Officer, Plane Branch, Army Medical
Service School. I am a captain, medical service
corps.

When did you know that you were going to he part of the invasion? Shortly after
we arrived in England on January 1944.

What was the trip like during the crossing of the Channel? Do you remember,
for example, any conversations you had or how you passed the time?

What were the rumors on board the boat, ship or plane in which you made
the crossing? (Some people remember souttlebut to the effect that the
Germans had poured gasoline on the water and planned to set it afire when
the troops came in).
Above example was one of the rumors. Another was
the use of gas warfare. The big rumor was that we
had some of our own secret weapons that we were
going to use.