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- for Cornelius Ryan 3 -
Your name Richard Leroy Munger

In times of great crisis, people generally show either great ingenuity
self-reliance; others do incredibly stupid things. Do you remember any
examples of either from D-day?
I mentioned one on the other sheet, We had a gunner mate
who didn't fire his 50 caliber because he said he didn't see anything
while the other gunner was firing like mad. I even swore at the one who
wasn't firing to start fireing, but he didn't.

Where were you at midnight on June 5, 1944? Tied up to this L.C.T.

Where were you at midnight on June 6, 1944?
Tied up to a L.C.T. that was anchored and blood splattered (with a cable this time, but a storm was bruing and our cable ripped right through the side of this L.C.

Do you know of anybody else who landed within the 24 hours of D-day, June 6
as infantry, glider or airborne troops, or who took part in the air and sea
operations, whom we should write to?
Besides the underwater demolition and Raingers there
were tanks landing, infantry and the English, "whatever they had" During the day L.C.U.'s landed with troops and also L.S.T.s landed with equipment and troops.
We sank because we were full of shrapnel and bullet holes, but we (5) are still alove, thats if any of the other four didn't have any accidents during civilian life. I could tell you more after June 6, because we stayed there quiet a many days after.

PLEASE LET US HAVE THIS QUESTIONNAIRE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, SO THAT WE CAN
INCLUDE YOUR EXPERIENCES IN THE BOOK. WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE YOUR STORY ON SEPARATE SHEETS IF WE HAVE NOT LEFT SUFFICIENT ROOM, FULL
ACKNOWLEDGMENT WILL BE GIVEN IN A CHAPTER CALLED ’’WHERE THEY ARE NOW;”
YOUR NAME AND VOCATION OR OCCUPATION WILL BE LISTED.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.

Cornelius Ryan
Frances Ward
Research, The Reader’s Digest