17-013 Garand Picture of the Day - Hitler's Hearse

[Mark in Rochester]

Sharing the horror of Omaha Beach with the GIs of the 29th were men from the 1st Division slated for the adjoining section , called Easy Red. The LCT with Bill Behlmer and his antitank platoon had never returned to port after the one-day postponement on June t. "We rode out the weather. It was so bad you had to look up to see the water. Everybody, including the navy crew, was seasick. My halftrack, Hitler's Hearse, was at the front of the LCT. We were to be first off and I was to lead my platoon on Omaha Beach. My driver, Stan Stypulkowski, who had come all the way through North Africa and Sicily, sat and talked with me all night. We Knew this was it for us.

Excerpt from "June 6, 1944: The Voices of D-Day

Stanley A Stypulkowski
Birth: 1909
Death: 1970



William D Behlmer

Birth: Apr. 18, 1919
Death: Sep. 20, 1998

Inscription:
1st Division US Army
D-Day Survivor

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