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InvasionMenquatwhohavetheviContirued from Page I)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 ships at about 10:30 a.rrt:McN'abb 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 his radar screen the ships in the English channel.Men 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 pi I t ferrying troops to the continent about two weeks after the invasion.I was no hero — I didn’tgo ashore in the invasion — and I didn’t see Eisenhower:#»*After the Normandy invasion, Stanton's ship was sent to the :oast of Southern France. Later le was transferred to the Pa-■ific theater of the war, with a ank landing craft (LCT) and vas at Okinawa when his tour war dutv ended. He was a eutenant (senior grade) when e received his discharge.Stanton is the only son of Ldgar W. Stanton Jr., civil en-ineer and rancher, of Orid-isy and Live Oak. They are as-ociated in their engineering irofession.Stanton’s eldest son, Deane Stanton, has been an en-sted man in the Navy for near-j three vears. He is expect-rig to return to Live Oak in )ctober.Marysville City Engineer I.e-rov Bothwell recalls being im-pressed with the vast number of craft still involved when he flew over the invasion area several days after D-DayThen 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.Wrhat did it look like? Well. Bothwell explains, you can’t see much from 25,000 fee: —Twenty years ago today a Wheatland man was waiting to find out if he was going to take part in the Normandy invasion. '•He is Robert Cne. who wasa glider pilot standing by at Barkston Heath near Grant-, ham, 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, 1846, 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.wOriginallv from Sheridan, he became an insurance man inWheatland after t h e war. Henow lives there with his wifeand two sonsnelOtthetionnewwouanclt;itvmaiMem(*rothecup'tiesT)wou%er\cau'worT]Pubapp7a tiinclYC ProjectpprovedA296peawaicilrniatiorTonthanked *he council and left. Underhill and Tiner said thev eac not entirelv sold” onxr^vrn^oTTTe «***«*•*■lt;»• rr. t sssaid thev would Mark insisted on proof that the aelsplit, although the motion was approved. The two councilmen wcljeslit;project later ..----approve the projects under cer- r,as r(^sona e;tain conditions.O. B Wickersham, 817 Taber ive., Yuba City, was not in he initial invasion, but his out-it. the 82nd Airborne Divisionarachuted in to take the first own as the allied forces moved i from the beaches. Wickersham’s unit later par-icipated in mopping up opera ions in the invasion. Wickersham was just back rom Anzio when the invasion ;ot underway on D-Day and his nit was held in reserve in England. The division later ame back and made the para-hute jump into Holland.A corpora! at the time of the nvasion, Wicker sham lat-was in the Korean War andHopper and Councilman E. L. McCune voted “aye” unconditionally. Councilman Larry Mark voted for the motion on the condition that his questions about the project would be satisfied. Mayor Ray Tiner voted against the motion and Councilman Marion Underhill abstained.Awil100Studies of the traffic wereproposed, but the merchants said if the council waited for ket studies it might be too late to 30.* do the work Mark said theancstorm drains should be instal- corLater Tiner and Underhill said they would approve the motion on the condition that any quest’ons Mark had would be satisfactorily answered.Proof Demanded Mark said he wanted definite proof that new business were moving into the Teegarden Avenue. Sutter Street area, whichled this iiimmer.Tiner suggested having an expert evaluate the situation McCune said. I don’t want some stinking engineers telling dai me what to do. I’ll be my ownest1froStajudge9 931st SatelliteLo!ingaitreprrImaMOSCOW (UPI) — The Soviet Union today launched the 400 31st in its series of unmanned’^,cosmos satellites, the Soviet nel news agency Tass said. (as- ;Ne28fhad been claimed by Hopperand Yuba City merchants in the1 DAMAGE REPORTEDas in a Communist prisoner au(jjence Mrs- Bernard Cox, 209 John-' war camp for two years. A Hopper sajd he and the city son St., Marysville, reported to tiojsident here for about 24 ears, he now works for Valley roducts Co.1 lUppV I OUIV4 IIV V. ^ ^ ,officials could provide that in- Marysville police yesterday wha at _ _ 1 L A Aft _ 11Donald Day, a Mary.v Ilia, ^ been jngisurance man, landed on Oma-1 _ _____,____Beach two days after the itial assault. He was a cap-iin in command of an armored fie company attached to the !th Armored Division.Day says everything was so infused he doesn’t remember many details. His company nded on the beach in the iddle of the night after being uck on a reef and then had hole up for two days near hedgerow along a road while ey waited for their armored iif - tracks to arrive by shipformationLouis Mercado, proprietor of Louis Shoe Store, said the citythePlumas Street merchants off 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 itwas parked in front of her home 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 f,er purSe Wednesday. Theneeded the Teegarden Avenue m0nevall I:rejals tioreianyoI bejthinothiaccess to survive.Claire Stevenson, ing Bremer Hardware on Sec- ernoon. ond Street, said the widening of Teegarden would add to the flow of traffic toward the'“downtown Secondwas taken from the purse while it was on the din-represent- ing room table during the aft-PURSE STOLENLee Lucas of 1736 Ash Way,Street Linda, reported to Marysvilletoday that herEWilliam McNabb a Marys- stores. police earlyle p 011 ce officer, w a s The merchants at times heat-; purse, containing approximatelytransportation sergeant in the Field Hospital which land-12 days after the invasion.edlv pushed for the improve- $12.50, had been taken while ment of Teegarden Avenue and she was at the Cas* Blanca, after their battle was won, 218 C St.ofrrtaiduD(tailia
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Marysville Appeal Democrat
Marysville, California, US
Sat, Jun 06, 1964
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