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2.
Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day? many friends were killed and wounded
Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties? Many conversations; but to relate them
all would take too long, taking into
account that everyone in the division
I was proud to call a friend.
Were you wounded? not on this operation it was later on the Rhine crossing
How were you wounded?
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?
Do you remember seeing or hearing anything that seems funny now, even though
it may not have seemed amusing at the time? Or anything unexpected or out-of-place?
Though I was dropped inside the German
lines, it seems funny now to think I
was for a few hours, almost brushing
shoulders with JERRY; and was unaware
that I was miles from where I should
have been; I thought I was in the wrong war.
Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, that struck
you more than anything else?
I cannot recall any incident during the
first day as I was alone until the next
day; when I met up with several others.
It was a case of lying low, but I can
recall how we were housed and fed in
secrecy by a family who lived in a chateau
until we left to make our way back to our