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May 8, 1958

M/Sgt Donald M. Duquette
Headquarters Company
521st Engineer Group ( M & S)
APO 227, New York, New York

Dear Sergeant Duquette:

Thank you very much for your letter of April 9 and for your
apparent interest in Cornelius Ryan's book about D-Day. I hope you
will forgive my long delay in replying, for we are really deluged with
mail resulting from the Army requests for information. Please believe
that we want very much to have your story, I should say, by way of
clarification, that this will not be another strategic history but a
story of twenty-four hours of D-Day as men lived them and remembered
them. For this, we must depend upon the people who were there and their
willingness to let us share their memories.
As the Stars and Stripes article probably indicated, Mr. Ryan
will be interviewing many of the people who contribute to the book. He
will do this here and in Europe during the next two or three months of
this year, and I should like very much to know whether or not you would
be available for interview at Kaisers Lantern during that period. In
the meantime since we are dealing with literally hundreds of people, we
are finding it necessary to keep an individual file on each person who
writes us with information; and so we should much appreciate your com-
pleting the enclosed record and returning it to me at your earliest
convenience.

We hope very much to hear from you again; we really need your
story. Thank you so very much for any help which you can give us.

Sincerely yours,

Frances Ward
Research Department
FW:LL
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