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The Great Crusade: SUNDAY, June 5, 1994

• HOW THE NEWS REACHED HOME
• JACK CUMBIE WAS A FLOATING TARGET, BUT HE WAS FAST, SO HE LIVED
• LATER, WHEN SGT. SLAUGHTER LOOKED, HE REALIZED THE HOLES IN HIS COAT WERE
• 'IT WAS MASS CONFUSION,' AND SIGNALMAN JOHN WILL CREASY HAD TO MAKE SENSE OF
• 'I ALWAYS WANTED TO GET INTO THE ACTION, SO I ALWAYS GO ON THE GUN,' FRED
• D-DAY WAS JUST ANOTHER OF THE MORE THAN 60 MISSIONS BOMBER PILOT AL BUCKLE
• "YOU ARE ABOUT TO EMBARK UPON THE GREAT CRUSADE..."
• FULL OF BOLOGNA, JAMES NORRIS KEPT STILL
• AFTER A NIGHT LIKE THAT, A RABBIT IS FRIGHTENING
• RICHARD ATKINS 'NEVER DID HIT BOTTOM'
• FOR THIS FLAME-THROWER IN THE BREACH, ONLY THE DRY LANDING WENT RIGHT
• DUTY ABOARD LST FOR PAIR FROM VINTON AND SALEM WAS MIND BENDING
• HOW THE DEATHS WERE TOLD BACK HOME
• HOW ROANOKE RESPONDED TO INVASION
• HAD ALVIS CORRELL DONE AS HE WAS TRAINED, HE'D HAVE BEEN KILLED
• THANKS TO THOSE WHO MADE THIS SECTION POSSIBLE
• FIRST WAVE--FROM VIRGINIA TO OMAHA BEACH