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- for Cornelius Ryan 2 -
Your name M/Sgt Harold T. Kennedy

Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?
No + you also should no that it was against regulations
to keep a diary (ha ha)
Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day?
we lost 18 of 32 glider pilots that night- I remember 4
personal friends killed out right on the landing
Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?
only one- F/O Kiel from Kentucky told me before
take off, that only the best die first + he was the
worst- I never saw him again.
Were you wounded?
not by gunfire, but my back + kidney was pulled out of
shape by the landing, which was upside down + straight in
Do you remember what it was like -- that is do you remember whether you
felt any pain or were you so surprised that you felt nothing?
I dont recall of feeling anything- except my concern
about my crew

Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even
though it did not, of course, seem amusing at the time?
Yes, when I cut off from tow- F/O Kology told me that
he could see a green light on our right- I pulled up
to slow down + made a climbing turn to the right
+ hit a tree with my right wing went up on my rear / of Mack
+ straight in. The jeep ---- tried + did come
foward + push the nose straight up. which in turn left
me 10 ft in the air- I felt no pain- but when Kology
said get out. I did + fell 10 ft on my head

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, which struck
you more than anything else?
sad yes- all the troopers who were hung in trees- most
of the path finders by which the Germans hung by there
necks + cut there insides out