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- GLC#
- GLC07239
- Type
- Journals & Diaries
- Date
- 1943/03-1944/12
- Author/Creator
- Follweiler, Frank, fl. 1944-1945
- Title
- D-Day Diary labeled "address book"
- Place Written
- Various Places
- Pagination
- 1 v. Height: 21.1 cm, Width: 13.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Diary kept in a green cloth address book written on board Tank Landing Ship LST-383 officer. Many of the diary entries are more like notes (p. "VII"): "Left ...Eng. Mon. June 5 for our fourth invasion ... D-Day is Tues June 6 .... Arrived Tues June 6 at 4 PM Bad Weather could not unloaded [sic] ... thousands of planes filled the sky we seen the gliders come and also the parachute troops."; with ID bracelet, Occupation arm patch, campaign ribbon, cigarette lighter, etc. Most pages in the book are blank.
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