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In Peacetime
At the D-Day Museum, New Orleans
This photo courtesy of Irving Smolens!
Irving Smolens standing beside a picture that is hanging in the D-day Museum. The caption that accompanies the picture says that the ship
carried troops of the 101st Airborne Division and the 4th Infantry Division. He was on a ship that contained this same combination of reserve troops from
both divisions. Doubtful that there were any others. From the ship we had to scramble down rope ladders with all our equipment into a smaller landing
craft which was to take us onto Utah Beach. This could very well be the very ship on which he crossed the Channel and he could very well be one of the soldiers on deck.
Friends Reunited!
This photo courtesy of Irving Smolens!
Pictured from left to right, are Dorothy Warren, the wife of Glenn Warren, Glenn Warren, Irving Smolens, and June Cunningham, the wife
of Jack Cunningham. Glenn Warren and Irving Smolens are D-day veterans. Glenn was radio operator for both Bill Cole and Jack Cunningham,
and lost the sight in one eye from shrapnel when caught in a mortar barrage while in a Forward Observer position with Bill Cole.
The stories by and about Glenn, Jack, and Irving appear on our stories page.
Battalion Commander
This photo courtesy of Irving Smolens!
Pictured here are Tommy Thomason, his granddaughter, (Nicole Strickland) and June Cunningham. After returning from Fort Hood where last year's reunion
was held Irving Smolens had mentioned to Tommy that the current Divarty Commander and the Commander of 3d Battalion 29th FA looked so young to have such
responsible commands. Irving's estimate is that they are in their late 30's or early 40's. Tommy then told him that he was only 24 years old when he took command of
the 29th in WWII and served in that capacity all through the fighting and was still in command when we returned to the States to prepare for the invasion of Honshu
in Japan in the spring of 1946.
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