European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Jun a mass of crossed underwater obstacles Are piled High on Normandy Beach left after they had been removed from the surf by combat engineers making the initial assaults on the assault troops who gave their last for the Success of the in Vasion right lie on a narrow strip of Beach where they were Cut Down by Shore defense they failed to reach the comparative safety of a Chalk first eyewitness Story sleepy airmen kick hell out of nazis by Bud Button june thousand feel troops surged Over the beaches of France and against hitlers Atlantic and As the first Black dots moved Over the while Sand a gunner s id Over the interphone Jesus at on the dirty dark Green of the Channel destroyers and More Man carrying Craft than you could count rolled steadily towards the Green Fields and the White towns the nazis had taken from through a Ste screen the wraith like shapes of warships loomed a Morrn can Melsoner into blobs of flame As another broadside roared off to find some wehrmacht Strong Point beyond the s was the Morth and South All across Trie Channel and deep into the reaches beyond the Concrete bound coasts of the some american and Allied warplanes flew in the greatest aeral Armada in they drove the Luftwaffe from the skies with and with bombs the German gunners and from their camouflaged Strong Points from a marauder medium bomber of Wilson Woods a tic a r Force piloted by Richard of p i saw the first americans go just As they went into the Low and with it thousands of other bombers and carried out the Job towards which m3 do air Force airmen have been aiming since the first fortress opened its bomb Bays above Rouen on 1942 fountains of smoke and flame and nazi poured Concrete up along the ridges behind the the airmen Hail been told that on them would rest the task of making the foot soldiers Job less they accepted that task and in its execution bombed from half the Altitude they knew could give them a fighting Chance of getting Home so that their explosives would not to do that Job they had gone through a Nightmare of flak before they came to the on i flew in the Copilot spot of a marauder piloted by Paul of to watch the last attack of the Many which had come to tar called the pre invasion tie bomber men went Back they ate and went to at 1 they were worn with the train of two hauls a Day almost every Day for two they walked through the wet night to the in a a dramatic Texas voice Wilson told them thirty three seconds after your bombs hit the Hun Page 12 1 american paratroopers reflect Confidence As they Fly to their Mission to land behind hitlers Channel defences and be ainu no the first to strike initial blows for the sea and waterborne invasion forces tracked West Wall four years ago today an smashed on to shatter hitters legions wherever they could be participants in the initial onslaught can never forget that to refresh the memories of the rest of the following three stories Are reprinted from the issues of the stars and stripes London edition for june 13 and they were written by staffers who covered the Landing itself and subsequent Bud Hutton was in Waist gunners Post of a b26 supporting infantry streaming ashore on Omaha Hodenfield was pinned Down on the Cliffs above Omaha he came ashore with the 2nd and 5th Ranger Philip Icho jumped with american Para troopers at Mere a leg and dictated his invasion Story from a Hospital in heroic rangers hit Normandy Beach by Hodenfield with rangers in june 8 Over and beyond the Call of duty is the army of an act of heroism worthy of a special its hard for an observer with the rangers to draw line for duty and classify those which Are Over and there for the Man whose assault Craft was blown up in the he managed to swim to picked his Way four Miles along the Cliffs under German sniper f scaled a 100foot reported to the commanding officer of the took a Tommy gun and within 20 minutes had cleaned out a German machine gun he was killed while exposing himself to give protecting fire for some men moving into a new then there was a staff sergeant just old enough to be called he was cornered by the germans not far from where some of his were pinned Down by a the men heard the germans ask pops to pops Dies fighting they peeked Over the top of their hellhole and heard him Tell them to go to he threw a hand that killed three of four the fourth killed with his but he never lived to report behind the German lines but within of the commander of the Allied Ranger was a ground Omar German ammo it Bradley climbs a Jacobs was Well dug in and mortar ladder to a warship to Confer fire  touch it commanders of other inva was too close to the Ranger Sjon line to Call for naval a there was Only one Way to get through the Plant a Bangalore torpedo and try to get a who had been busted from staff sergeant two weeks took the Bangalore and blew up the to do it he had to jump from hellhole to shellhole1 for the first 100 Yards and then run across open ground for 25 Yards he was under heavy machine gun fire coming and anyhow they Ever missed him will always Remaina Miracle to those who saw remains underwire a Hanger chaplain landed on our of the hottest Landing grounds the entire All during the time his men were ashore he walked from one fallen Soldier giving first Aid to those who still living and saying last words to the j All through the Hail of fire that rained Down the beaches he did what he could and didst leave the Beach All his men had crossed it to the comparative safety of the Cliff what is line of duty for a Man the Ranger Aid men were on the go bringing in treating men in the carrying from one on page12 id term Lerica enemy of Dos sch us far r mean Eves tale of tenacity airborne gis even without by Phil Bucknell with american airborne june 8 american paratroopers hit the do zone Flag flew Over the vital communications the americans swept into the twinkling from their they were reinforced by simultaneously other units landed at of holding Down the line of attack for the in by those amphibious forces were scheduled to noon came in some hours time the airborne troops held their positions increasing enemy in the face ing ammunition and nonexistent they Hes at on wednesday the tanks came Heads were waiting for their Hook up now the land forces have moved on Betoi and so have the airborne survived the info sent and Savage pictures of the Day operations on from the historical files of the 69th signal pm of signal corps photographers arrivals on the invasion the trip across was easy and the paratroopers most of the men in my plane slept until we i stand Hook called the a lieutenant whose third com flak started coming up at us i co arid Green tracers reaching up at on the ground was More opposition than we had the began to take the shape if the we had studied Back in this is Fel said the battalion commander we when Bridge town hours of the were shooting at us As we came it French in in this yellow uts i we had to slip our chutes violently to the the Speed of the and the Impact of Landing for this reporter who received a broken leg for the next sevenans Dahal hours i watch fhe Campaign from the position in which i landed throughout the night came other paratroops a gliders towed by the 9th troop Carrier sled Down searching for Landing places in the morning i was found by the medical of men and they carried me in to a Post near the chief where i was Able to keep up with the Progress the reports were the battalion con under had collected a Force of men and made a  into Mere other forces were pro Frog conv Mun cations and establishing Road prisoners began to come some were too Young or too then there were some no germans surrendered without fight All that night the attack kept and by a the next of Iho Ough to morning the germans had 800 chief command and snipers had infiltrated Points of advantage not More than 300yards aws soon after troop Carrier command p swooped a lot of them dropped within sigh of the machine gun fire on troops trying to reach at 10 i was told by a staff officer Tubaj it seemed that the up would have to be Given and our tips would try to Reform nearer the at the first of troops and Sherman tanks began to arts How this is not the Complete picture Ujj this is just the Story of How an of american paratroops and glider riders the they had trained so Long to and their positions for 22 hours longer than the plan we will accept nothing less than full Dwight p t Amplis hed then held