Monday, June 06, 2005

First Wave

The Atlantic Monthly November 1960

First Wave at Omaha Beach

When he was promoted to officer rank at eighteen, S. L. A. MARSHALL was the youngest shavetail in the United States Army during World War I. He rejoined the Army in 1942, became a combat historian with the rank of colonel; and the notes he made at the time of the Normandy landing are the source of this heroic reminder.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/196011/omaha
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