ryan_box018-tld_f03_03

- for Cornelius Ryan 2 -

Your name George S. Harker

Did you by any chance keep a diary of what happened to you that day?

No.

Were any of your friends killed or wounded either during the landing or
during the day?

Lost one man from my detachment, three scratched.

Do you remember any conversations you had with them before they became
casualties?

No.

Were you wounded?

No.

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 did not, of course, seem amusing at the time?

It was funny in the sense of peculiar, not comical then or
now, that we should find barracks bags stacked on the beach in orderly
rows, four high and twelve wide.

Do you recall any incident, sad or heroic, or simply memorable, which struck
you more than anything else?

The callin6 of wounded men from the marshes and mine fields
to one side of the taped path troubled me, particularly in that
it contrasted to the quiet of the wounded on stretchers at the col-
lection points waiting evacuation. I asked a medical captain about this.
One man in particular, some days later, as I had observed him assisting
others on the path. His comment was "Oh that guy, he
was just scared."