Lafayette Pool - Tank Ace
MG Maurice Rose

SPEARHEADING IN NORMANDY
	DIRECTORY 6 June 1944 - This Beach Bought & Paid For. 24 June 1944 - 3d Armored Division Arrives.
OMAHA BEACH - 24 JUNE, 1944

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

"We followed another tank through the opening in the hedge row. As soon as we got through the assistant driver started screaming that there was a German tank just to our right side. I traversed the turret. But I could not see the German in the tangle of trees and brush. I looked and looked. The German tank fired and hit us right in the side by the assistant drivers position and killed him. I couldn't see the German.... I just couldn't see the German."

Mr. Mattingly
3d Armored Division
Normandy in the Bocage hedgerows 1944

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