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Title: A medic's memories of Omaha Beach,June 6,1944 View count: 15726 Rating: 4.9204545 (88 ratings) Description: Walter Dickens, 89, of Monroe North Carolina was inducted into the Army in 1941. He served as a medic, a first sergeant with the 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Division that was in the first assault wave to hit the beaches at Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The division itself landed on Omaha Beach on the same day in the face of intense enemy fire suffering horrific casualties, but soon secured the bluff tops and went on to occupy Isigny on 9 June. The division cut across the Elle River and advanced slowly toward St. Lo, fighting bitterly in the Normandy bocage (hedge rows). A member of what is now called "America's Greatest Generation",Walter probably doesn't think of himself as a hero,but to the many men whos lives he saved on that bloody beach and on through the end of that war he is a hero. He is a hero in my eyes and it was a honor to have met him Tags: world, war, two, d-day, omaha, beach, america's, greatest, generation, 29th, infantry, st, lo, saving, pvt.ryan, Author: NoFreeSpeechOnUtube |
