Charles R. Cawthon
As a young army officer Charles Cawthon went ashore at Omaha Beach. This memoir, written 45 years after the war, is a fascinating account of his training, the invasion, and the subsequent fighting.
In vivid snapshot scenes alive with smell and color Cawthon tells of the quotidian and the extraordinary, the reluctant soldiers as well as the heroes. He looks back with some sadness, no regrets, no little pride and even some nostalgia for a youth spent with like-minded brothers in arms who did what needed to be done with dogged perseverance.