Pappy Parlez
SSgt
Worster "Pappy" Morgan chats with a local woman, perhaps in
Ste Marcouf, as he tries to determine enemy activity
(courtesy Frank Everards) |
Hq Hq Patrol moves down
a street beside the cemetery of Saint Marcouf fearing German
snipers. The Signal Corps photographer identified them as Capt
Robert Abraham (Company C.O.), SSgt Worster M. Morgan, Pfc
Luther Marney Tillery, Pfc Joel R. Lander, Pvt John G. McCall -
Pfc James R. Kumler, and T/5 Donald J. MacLeod (facing camera). These troopers were
released ten kilometers (6 miles) from their designated DZ.
(courtesy Frank Everards)
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Ste Marcouf Today
the same scene is shown in a modern photo and documents that little has
changed in this vicinity |
 Walter
Piippo [front]
in Normandy, date and location unknown. The other troopers
are unidentified.
(courtesy Loraine Koski) |
|
Homer
Bohannon (l) and Bill McClure
in Normandy. Homer apparently went by his middle name
of Basil. |
 Lt.
Rex Combs
is ready and able with his Thompson submachine gun, south of
Ste. Sauveur le Vicomte, June 19th, 1944. He was wounded
just after the picture was taken.. Note the captured German P-38
pistol on his belt. It is still in the Combs family's
possession..
(courtesy Rex Combs collection |
 Close
Call
Bob White, A Co, pokes around with his Thompson while
sporting a pair of bullet holes in his sleeve.
(photo taken by Henry Lefebvre) |
Hill 95 Today
is serene today but on 4 July 1944 F Company was in a
vicious battle on this site
(courtesy of Lucien Hasley) |
