What happened that day on Omaha Beach

[Mk VII]

The accuracy of Marshall's account has been called into question. The notebook which he supposedly wrote it up from in 1960 has not been traced among the Marshall papers.

"I am the only survivor off that landing craft and I have never, never told anybody that Captain Zappacosta pulled his gun on that coxswain and told him to take that boat in. It did not happen."

--Bob Sales, B Company, 116th Regiment, 29th Division

Stephen Ambrose and the British coxswains