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We were almost out of ammo, with panzers coming. The order came: 'There's no better place to die. We stay'.
(From Leicester Mercury)
In the script of the epic war movie The Longest Day, he is billed as the First Landed Paratrooper, In A Garden. You may remember the scene. In the dead of night an American paratrooper drops into the vegetable plot of a schoolhouse in the sleeping town of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, startling an elderly Frenchwoman who's heading for a midnight trip to the outhouse.
"Shhh," says First Landed Paratrooper, putting his finger to his lips.
"Aw, that's a crock of shit," snarls Bob Murphy, down the line from Massachusetts.
"It was made up: erroneous. I tell that to everyone I meet.
"Yes, I did say 'shhh'. But I wasn't in anyone's garden. I was in a field half-a-mile outside Sainte-Mere-Eglise. I thought I'd seen someone, but it could have been a cow or just a shadow. It certainly wasn't a French schoolteacher." It's four decades after the release of the D-Day blockbuster, but Bob's clearly still annoyed by the dramatic licence used on his story.
So let's stick doggedly to the facts. June 6 was barely 15…
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