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InvasionHenqhtliConitr.ued from Page 1)Stanton recalled that the LCII (large infantry landing craft) first arrived off Utah Beach about 6 a m. on D-Day. The channel was “pretty choppy,” he said, and they stood offshore for about three hours. The soldiers were landed on the beach from the snips at about 10:30 a.rrt:McNabb said he landed on Omaha Beach and hir unit set up a field hospital on the Cherbourg peninsula. He said the unit was at Weymouth, England, on the dav of the invasion, where hospital units treated injured returning from the landing areabut could detect on screen the ships in channel.his radar the EnglishnttMen in individual units of the invasion naturally could knowat the time only what was going on in their immediate surroundings.Don’t get any wrong ideas about my part in it,” Stanton said, in answer to questions from The Appeal-Demo-crat.Richard Taresh of Wheatland was a transport pil t ferryingtroops to the continent about two weeks after the invasion.I was no hero — I didn’t go ashore in the invasionand I didn’t see Eisenhower:»#»After the Normandy invasion,Stanton's ship was sent to the coast of Southern France. Later he was transferred to the Pacific theater of the war, with a tank landing craft (LCT) and was at Okinawa when his tour of war dutv ended. He was aMarysville City Engineer l.e-rov Bothwell recalls being im-*pressed with the vast numberof craft still involved when he flew over the invasion area several days after D-Day Then an Army Air Corps radar man, he was in a B-24 based in England which took part in follow up action. Some of the planes in his group dropped smoke bombs and markers for the initial invasion, b u t his plane was among those which bombed enemy territoryfurther inland.What did it look like? Well. Bothwell explains, you can’t see much from 25,000 feet —Twenty years ago today a Wheatland man was waiting to find out if he was going to take part in the Normandy in-v asion.He is Robert Coe. who wasa glider pilot standing by at Barkston Heath near Grantham, England, with a reserveforce.“We were loaded up and ready, he recalled. From minute to m.nute, they Just never knew” if they were goingout.Invasion time for Coe came several months later — onSept 18, 1348. when he took part in the invasion of Holland His glider was one of nine that went off course and went down behind German lines. Coe was taken prisoner and sent toStalagluft No. 1, Barth, Germany.wOriginalh from Sheridan, he became an insurance man inWheatland after t h e war. Henow lives there with his wifeand two sons.nva1rr* ctVIcV\7lieutenant (senior grade) when he received his discharge.Sian ton is the only son of Edgar W. Stanton Jr., civil engineer and rancher, of Grid-iev and Live Oak They are as--*rsoda ted in theirYC ProjectpprovedOf* * tff'f r; PengineeringM. Stanton, has been an enlisted man in the Navy for nearly three years. He is expect-mg to return to Live Oak in October.thanked *he council and left. Underhill and Tiner said thevnot entirely “sold on who didn’t vote iTfivor ofthe widening the whole street .ndsplit, although the motion wasprofession. approved. The two councilmen wereSainton's eldest son, Deane „.u„ \r% fa\»Ar r\f f h frwideniproject later »aid they would Mark InsHed on proof that the approve the project* under cer- project was reasonable.fitudies ofO. B Wickersham, 817 Taber tionally.tain conditions.Hopper and Councilman E. L. *'McCune voted “ave”Councilman LarnAve., Yuba City, was notmMark voted for the motion onthe initial invasion, but his out- the condition that his questionsfit. the 82nd Airborne Divisionthe traffic were but the merchantsAU ^ dV sa‘d '^e councd waited for unCon studies it might be too late todo the work Mark said thestorm drains should be installed this summer.Tiner suggested having anabout the project would be sat-parachuted in to take the first isfied. Mayor Ra.v Tiner \oted ex t evaluate the situation town as the allied forces moved against the motion and Council- Mrf,]inp said ..j dont wanin from the beaches.Wickersham's unit later participated in mopping up opera tions in the invasion.Wickersham was just back from Anzio when the invasion. .... . , mtvunc said, “I don’t wantman Marion n er i as am SQme stjnj;jng engineers telling*“• me what to do. I’ll be my ownLater Tiner and Underhill jucjge ”said they would approve the ___motion on the condition that _ any quest'ons Mark had wouldgot underway on D-Day and his ^ satisfactorily answered.31st Satelliterrooi Demanded MOSCOW (UP!) - The So-Mark said he wanted definite viet Union today launched the proof that new business were 31st in its series of unmanned; moving into the Teegarden Ave- cosmos satellites, the Soviet j nue, Sutter Street area, which news agency Tass said. ihad been claimed by Hopper j —Iand Yuba City merchants in the1 DAMAGE REPORTED |was in a Communist prisoner . audjence Mrs- Eernard Cox 209 John*of war camp for two years. A Hopper said he and the city son St., Marysville, reported tounit was held in reserve in England. The division later came back and made the parachute jump into Holland.A corporal at the time of the invasion, Wicker sham later was in the Korean War and* ^ I x l \ jyjpv a uu ^ ^ jresident here for about 24 i officials could provide that in- Marysville police yesterdayi - —1.1 11 am t i j 4 i i * i _ La J nnyears, he now works for Valley j formatIonProducts Co. j Louig Mercado, proprietor of^ “°“M : Louis Shoe Store, said the city, was parkedDonald Day, a Marysv i e ■ council had been putting theinsurance man, landed on Oma-, pjumas street merchants offha Beach two days after the initial assault. He was a captain in command of an armoredrifle company attached to the 12th Armored Division.Day says everything was so confused he doesn’t remember too many details. His companylanded on the beach in the middle of the night after being stuck on a reef and then had !for 14 years, since he opened his store in Yuba City.‘Needed For Survival*Mercado said every councilfor the past 14 years put offthat the aerial had been broken from her automobile while itin front of herhome between 7 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. yesterday.MONEY TAKENMrs. Erma Whitside of 3288 Butte House Road, Sutter County, reported to the sheriff’s of-doing something for the mer- fjce that 555 was stolen fromchants and that the merchants ber purse Wednesday. The needed the Teegarden Avenue money was taken from the access to survive. purse while it was on the din-Claire Stevenson, represent- ing room table during the aft-ilUL.iv uu a i uiim *---• __ , n0 hole up for two days near mg Bremer Hardware on Sec-emoon.1 hedgerow along a road while hey waited for their armored talf - tracks to arrive by ship.ond Street, said the widening of Teegarden would add to the flow of traffic toward the i * ‘downtown ’’ SecondPURSE STOLENLee Lucas of 1736 Ash Way,Street Linda, reported to Marysvilletoday that herWilliam McNabb, a Marys- stores. police early .ille d 0 11 ce officer, was The merchants at times heat-; purse, containing approximately1 transportation sergeant in the edlv pushed for the improve- $12.50, had been taken_ while2th Field Hospital which land-kJ 12 days after the invasion.ment of Teegarden Avenue and she was at the Case Blanca, after their battle was won, 218 C St.
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Marysville Appeal Democrat
Marysville, California, US
Sat, Jun 06, 1964
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