European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse N�sitaj0rtiks an american Landing Craft approaches the Beach at Normandy on a Day morning. The allies would suffer 15,000 casualties in the to Strasbourg gourmet rations and blowing it out Here Bob Moora managing editor of the London edition was awakened by a phone Call at 8 45 on a Day morning. Since stripes was a morning paper the staff worked nights and Moora was asleep in his London quarters when the Call came through. Bud Hutton was on the line calling from an Airfield in Southern England. A tried to get you at the office a Hutton said casually. A the office a Moora repeated in groggy disbelief. A at this hour a a yes the office a Hutton repeated carefully. A thought you a surely be the message finally Sank into Moora a still sleepy brain. The Allied invasion of Europe had finally begun. A on my Way now a he said slamming Down the phone and throwing on a uniform. By the time Moora made it to the office Hutton was on his Way to Normandy Manning the Waist gunners position on a marauder bomber. Staff writer Philip Bucknell was already lying in a Field near the town of St. Merc Elisc having jumped in with the 82nd airborne div and shattered a leg. . Hodenfield was making up for having left the fighting in North Africa. Head landed with the 2nd Ranger in and had been quickly pinned Down by enemy fire at Pointe do hoc the site of a pair of German artillery guns that could reach the Omaha and Utah beachhead. Rocked by heavy winds and 4-foot Waves the rangers had been blown off course by three Miles. By the time the group arrived 30 minutes late the Allied naval bombardment of the objective had ceased and German troops lined the top of the pointers 150-foot Cliffs where they rolled Down hand grenades and fired machine guns from Point Blank Range. Somehow despite staggering casualties the rangers made it to the top and slowly drove Back the defending German forces. The artillery guns were eventually located in a nearby Apple Orchard and destroyed but the rangers would be pinned Down on the Bluff for another two Days before getting help. A there were Only a handful of survivors a remembers Hodenfield now retired in Southern California. A of the 225 men who got into the Landing Craft Only about 50 walked away under their own Hodenfield a Story on the assault said it with a Little More drama a a a Over and beyond the Call of duty is the army description of an act of heroism worthy of a special award. Its hard for an observer with the rangers to draw a line of duty and classify those which Are a Over and beyond a with the rangers. There is nothing a Over and beyond the a though Heartfelt and Well written continued on 1�?~ae 20
