My Dad was in the third wave on Sword beach after boarding an LCI from an Indian freighter. He was in the 84th Railsplitters Infantry Division of the 9th Army under Omar Bradley. He was 18 years old at the time. He finished the war as a 1st Sgt. Then later served as a 1st Lt. commanding a 90mm anti-aircraft battery in Korea.

I also have a first cousin that was in the Green Berets and served the duration of the Vietnam War (he was later one of Ross Perot's body guards) along with an uncle who was a navigator on a B-52.

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Robert B. McCorquodale
Sebring, FL

"Flip a fly"

[This message has been edited by dixieangler (edited 11 June 2006).]