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Conversation with Colonel Bedell - Friday, 16 February, 1968. tel: 301 586 0180

"Of course I ms shanghaied into being a co pilot on my glider and I
don’t think I noticed any turbulence nor did any of the men. ” I
do not remember the pilot’s name. He did not remember any of the other
men in his glider.

Death of Lieut. Jacobius - This was after the Nijmegen river crossing.
"We were out in a bivouac in the forest, I think, south of Nijmegen.
It was about a hundred yards from Div HQ. It was Berg En Dal."
"My wound was not very serious. It was pretty painful and at the time I
felt kinda foolish walking around with my helmet pushed on top of a dozen
or fiften gauze pads. to relieve the pressure of my helmet.” Was treated
by a 307 doctor does not remember his name.

Does not remember the enlisted man’s name who won the live hare. "He won
that over in one of the little towns in the Midlands over there. I guess
he bought a ticket somehow, drew the winning number and got the live hare.
He jumped with it. He carried it in one of the wide pockets on his trousers.
River crossing - 20 September - Bedell thought it was just a mission. "It
was pretty bad of course with that 20 mm. machine gun that the Germans had
up on the bridge firing straight down the river on us.” There were just
the two buildings the power house and the factory and they made the assualt
between the two. And there were the three British tanks set back about 100
feet from the dike. One of the shells from the tanks zoomed in between two
of the advancing infantrymen of the 504 when they were crossing the far shore.
It didn’t bother them at all, it turned cartwheels and then went on over and
started spewing smoke.