According to Charles Richardson, of the North Shore regiment, at the time of war, he and his peers had trained and practiced for so long and were ready to go to war. They came up on the beaches and they were all singing away, laughing carrying on like always. He was almost twenty-two years of age. As they approached the beach, their platoon Sargeant, Perly White, who was twenty-five years old, was hit with an armored piercing. It was glanced off

of him but there was a dead silence all of a sudden, from that moment on. They all realized for the first time that "this was for real," Richardson claimed (Humphreys, 2004). Boys seemed to become men on that day, if they were lucky. The stories of those who fell on the beach are still told today. The stories are well remembered and are too terrible for many to talk about.

At that point every man acted for himself, on his own instinct. He remembers that when he saw the colonel go over, the other troops followed that example and began to go overboard too. He remembers struggling for air and trying to get to the surface. He didn't figure he would have any trouble swimming the short distance to the beach. His big trouble was with the tide though. The machine gun bullets were hitting all around and killing a lot of men that were in the water. It was a good thing though, that the tide was moving the troops in the water rapidly. Because of this, he and troops had to grab out at some of the underwater obstructions and mines built on telephone poles and girders, and end up hanging on. They would take cover and then make a dash through the surf for the next one, about 50 feet beyond. The men would line up between those poles and help each other to go through at a certain time. Somehow, Lieutenant Carroll and some of his peers ended up on the beach, but so many others died in the process. He could not remember anything, however, in a matter of about five to 10 minutes. He learned later that he was briefly knocked out unconscious. The tide had them pressed up on a short strip of shore. Many of the men were trying to dig shallow foxholes, but that offered little protection for them. The lieutenant thought he and the troops would never get off of the beach. Then a battle began. The German cruisers and destroyers opened up. They hit and blew the cliff right out. Only two or three from my detachment made it to the beach alive. Most of the others were killed, sadly.

We need to keep in mind that during the war, we made plenty of mistakes. The problem is that many times, memories of wars are inevitably clouded by victory or defeat. Our triumph in World War II on D-Day has obscured many errors. Compared with other countries' losses, our losses were low: 405,000 dead of the 16 million who served; however, some frontline casualty rates were horrific and stemmed from minor mistakes that could have been prevented. There was a rivalry between the military bra

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