Show 1 HIM ii 1 1111 lt n 11 n 1 1 H f t 1 era With Our Boys In InThe I ED The Arm Armed d F Forces I 1 I t And if It our lines should form and break Because of things you failed tailed to make The extra tank or ship pr plane For which we waited all m in vain And the supplies that never came Will you then come and take the blame For we not you will pay the cost coat OX Ot battles you ou not we have lost Dy By an American Marine name unknown somewhere In Australia Aus Aus- Jq tr pa 1 OFf OIT T TWO aIt s J. IN IS It I HEADQUARTERS AIRBORNE DIVISION NORMANDY NORMANDY Several Several hours be before foro H Hour It-Hour Hour on Day D-Day hundreds ot or paratroopers floated Into France for the first attack on the enemy on the continent continent continent con con- of Europe Dropping from tho the skies with camouflaged camoUflaged camouflaged cam cam- parachutes the men anon members of an infantry regiment of the Airborne Division floated down over the Cotentin peninsula into a action Their Job was to prevent German forces from reaching the beachhead and to clear the way for our ground troops who were following closely behind Most of the fighters from this regiment regi reg- ment landed In an area around Chef du Pont and some met net machine gun gun gunfire fire before Idore they hit the ground There was sporadic mortar fire Sire too but somewhat somewhat some some- somewhat what inaccurate Snipers were all about The paratroopers fell everywhere In in water swamps and trees trees and and almost every man found himself face to face with the enemy exchanging fire For Fo nearly 34 hours the men were in constant con con- stant contact with the foe foo Two strong German divisions were prevented from Interfering with our ground assault forces until the beach landings had been accomplished and hd the beaches benches secured To achieve this the tha regiment captured the tho town of Ste Ste. Mero Mere held bridges over two rivers rivers- the at La Flere and at Chef du duPont duPont duPont Pont and the Douve at Pont lAbbe and at la 10 Bastille A large pocket of Allied Allred resistance within the enemy lines was set up It stretched from fete o Mere on the east to St. St Sauveur le Ie on the west and from Le Ham on the north almost to La Haye de Putts Puits on the south Nothing could stop the troops in establishing this position It was done without relief or replacements Every mission was accomplished accomplished and no ground gained was ever relinquished Most of the fighting was done in closed country The Germans found excellent excellent ex ex- ex- ex cover in the small fields bordered border border- ed by hedgerows Much of the land had been flooded Having overcome Initial resistance the paratroopers had to pick their way stealthily through the fields to find their companions and organize themselves themselves themselves them them- selves in large groups for the coming fight Some men found themselves all alone and had to hide for days before they could establish contact with their buddies One Ono large group of this regiment was scattered on both sides of the Carentan Carentan- Cherbourg railroad Slowly after fightIng fighting fight fight- fighting ing off Innumerable small attacks they slogged through yards of flooded fields to Join another group Ora Gradually dually the men gathered In force as elements of other regiments began to appear Then they hey prepared for action Against stupendous odds one forca successfully pushed the enemy west of of the River and another captured ed Chef Chet du Pont after some of ot the heavIest heaviest est eat fighting of the campaign A member of the Include Patrick Patric Sullivan of this city Pa IU SET 79 pa WRITES i INTERESTINGLY TO J Recently Mr and Mrs Les Lea Roach received re re- calved the following letter from their thell son eon Clifford J J. J Roach who is 18 servIng serving ing his country somewhere in the England England Eng Eng- land territory Dear Dad I guess you all have been wondering what happened to my writing Well I 1 took time off and went and had a very wonderful visit with your folks Dad It was Just like going home for a visit Everyone in III fine and looking their very best beat Your father Is getting along very well for his age I could see you as i a Io old man when I saw your dad I can call say now you are going to be a wonderful old man if you are like Uke him and L 1 know you will be Your dad Frank and andI I 1 went to a Stock Show I believe they called it it It is Ia where they Judge all the I cows and horses and so on Your dad really enjoyed it it I Your mother seemed very thrilled to see me and I to see her She Is fine and boy she sure aura can cook I can see where you picked up a lot tat of your sayings saying I You You talk like your mother Although I 1 had never neve I seen them I felt right at uL home dome Your mother said when you ou left home she couldn't couldn do a a. bit of work of any sort for a week after so I guess she ehe felt plenty bad She thinks you are aro aro aroa J a grand boy dad and I know why I Aunt Jess Jere met me at the St St. Agnes train station also Frank I 1 believe I I I could of recognized Frank but hut Im I'm not sure about Jess Jese A little girl next door to your folks saw us walking up the tho road and she told her mother their goes Miss RoaCh with a a. Yank Mom that's the first man I have ever seen I her with They got quite a kick out I of It Jess was wai always wanting to do for me She was wall really swell awell She told me how you always used to tease her and Flo She also told me how big a n wolf you were in fn your younger youth She said you had many ny a a. gills I and broke many of at their theft hearts You really must of been quite the women's man She showed me two of 01 your books I she is keeping They were presented to I you by your Sunday Sunda school for good attendance One was in the year 1901 and end the other 1908 Aunt Flo and Uncle Tom are very swell people They treated me swell all the time I was there I really didn't see lee beethem leethem them too long a time Flo Plo looks more like your mother and I like your dad She Blae was helping in u the stock show And Uncle I Tom was the vice president of the show Frank Flank and I went to Redruth where whore your brother James lives He lie was really glad to ta see sen mo me 1110 as ho he has been trying very hard to g get t me mo down there I only 1 II 1 I IIII x h had a few lew hours there but I feel leel I know them very well He lIe Isn't quite ts es tall on as yo you u but weighs about the same They an sIl told me ma what heavy sleepers the Roach's are aro and they told m me roll about Uncle Jim going to sleep at a s horse race standing up Jim says rays the reason the Roach's are such good sleepers is le that when they go to sleep they all do it t with a clear conscience and If ii any thing tiring does bother them they put It on the tho door mat until morning and then pick it up again He lie is U really a swell fellow Aunt Janie was very glad to see me mo and expected me to stay there over night but ut I didn't have the time She lane seemed to be a very nice woman and I X sure lure enjoyed my visit with them There Is so 80 much on my mind to say that 1 I cant can't get it to come out right Ill I'll tell more moro in letters as I write on I have said a little about them all now Oh Oh except Frank lIe He is le Just like all of us Ho lie likes sports and enjoys his schooling He lie is le a swell cousin la fa all aU I J can say Just put them all together Dad and I can say ray you have a very wonderful won won- j family and I sure auto am glad I 1 have been able to see ere them and hope I shall be bo able to see them again They hope to be seeing raring you a after ter the War ar and I J sure aura hope they can They really think thank y you ou are ok Dad and I think you all aU are ok with me I received a a. letter from Bon Sis and Mom today so BO tell them r t shall write soon BOon I also heard from Grandma and G Grandpa Lindsay the Winne Frank Prank and Emma so I didn't do so BO bad The way things look and sounds this war shouldn't last too long and it t wont won't b be e too long till this is a all over and we wo we shall all be back home and one happy family Cant Can't think of anything else for far this tula time tune so Ill I'll be seeing you for this time tune All my love to a swell Dad YOUR SON 13 Ra VISITS PARK l' Mr loll and Mrs Jack Rugar spent Bunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day in the Park visiting at lt the home homo of at Jacks Jack's parents Mr and Mrs John Rugar Mr Rugar Is le stationed at Hill Field near Ogden and was Just recently pro pm rooted to Chief Radio Engineer CommuniCations Communications Com Com- Branch Ogden Air Service Command A SI J Bl Ri AT CAMP 1 I U UT Mr and Mrs Roy Fletcher received word this week that their son eon Melvin Melvln had hod sprained his hale ankle while doing some a athletic work at his hale base at Camp Camo Farragut Farragut Farragut Far- Far Idaho Melvin Melvln is now In the hospital to- to re and la Jr in hopes of getting a furlough before going back to active duty Al 35 F Ra 27 WOUNDED ID Plc Charles James Jr was reported a as s being injured in n the Mediterranean theatre of war recently James is the son of Charles James Jamesa a Park City boy and is fe a 01 of M Mrs rs Joe Brunyer of Salt Lake City T K ba HOME m ON Marcon Alarcon one of the many Park boys serving in the U U. S Navy is b en- en enjoying enJoying enjoying a day 28 furlough here Mr Marcon has been serving in the South Pacific area and has been in the thick of ot it several times and times and is anxious anxious anxious an an- and willing wiling to return and help finish the Job bat f WOUNDED IN NCE Farley and Floyd loyd Smith of this city received word Wednesday August 23 that their then brother Carl E E. E Smith was seriously wounded while serving with a Tank Destroyer in n France orance Another brother Charles is le in n the South Pacific I |