operation overlord and then here in normandy, france in the weeks that followed democrat these wonderful edges of these young men and among them he told me about his memories from 80 years ago about what he thinks of the nation that he and others fought and so many died for and how he thinks it s doing today. i m steve mellen cough and i m i was with the 29th division, one of the ed divisions and i was on omaha beach omaha beach. i m originally from rhode island and then my work after took me to baltimore area. martha: what you remember about that day, you know, when you talk about how difficult it was in overcoming these odds and planners saying that it couldn t be done. what was in your heart, what do you remember? the only in with the infantry only got 12 weeks
training because but because the new we were going to this battle, we got 17 weeks training. but then after the 17th week, we came over to england and i trained five additional months in st. ives before we went and. so this whole group of men, we knew after a little bit that we were going over here. martha: once you made up the beach and i m sure you lost a lot of people that you knew probably on the ship, right. yes. martha: what was that like for you? all say this, on first day the 29th division in the first division had caused , casualties, 5720. outside that to begin. 5720 casualties on the first day. martha: told me win and where you were wounded? yeah. i was wounded on june 17th.
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