GLIDER PILOT INTERROGATION

We landed about two miles west of Boutteville. The jeep, which was part of our cargo snapped from its mooring, swinging the front end of the glider up, and went through the nose. W then kicked out one of the windows and got out of the glider and layed low until night fall. We met some paratroopers and started west to the C.P. which at this time was unknown. Later we ran into several more paratroopers who directed us in the right direction. I had my injured jaw fixed at C.P. by T/4 Sam Woley at the Reg. C. P. We slept at the Reg. C.P. in a French car and during the night paratroopers and airborne had a small encounter which did not last long because they used the machine gun pistol [sub-machine gun].

We dispersed and hid around the area all morning, then went to the railroads bridge over Merderet. We had to wade through water up to our shoulders to get there. We met the 507th Airborne coming down the tracks toward their regimental CP at 319-962. The 507th were to take Granville but it was too hot for them. Snipers got a few of the airborne on the way down.

The next morning we rode a jeep to north of Blosville Reg C.P. which was turned into [an] first aid station. We left there in another jeep and went to a castle, staying there from ten until twelve where we met F/O Lindquist, F/O Thomas, Co. [?] and Mike Murphy. From there we marched some German Prisoners to the hospital at Sébeville, and then went to St. Marie Du Mont, from there they went to Herbert [Audouville-la-Hubert] and then to the coast. We saw one hundred and fifty two (152) German prisoners, thought to be Russian.

SOUVENIRS: None

RECOMMENTATIONS: The Glider Pilots should have tommy guns and packs