Sharred w/ me by my uncle, M-4 Tank Commander Henry Crow. On D-day, they landed about dead center on Omaha Beach right underneath where the American cemetary is today. As the 745th was in the second wave, he had an ocean view from his turret of the 2nd Rangers in their attempt to climb the cliffs. For years, he awoke in the night re-living the screams of wounded still on the beach. His orders were to head in a straight line to the Colleville Draw and it was made clear that this meant driving over wounded without maneuvering around them. He never got over that. He remembered liberating St Lo, France. His tank took a shell near the Northern part of the Bulge where he took shrapnel and became "shell shocked". They then liberated Hauffolize, Belgium and made it as far as Bonn, Germany where what he had experienced caught up with him and he mentally caved in and had to be shipped back home in Febuary. Nine months of hell. He never thought of himself as a hero and now approaching 90 years old, has finally forgiven himself for running over those guys on the beach. As of June 2008, he is still alive and living in Machesney Park, IL and is one of two surviving members of the 745th. (Ed Young, Rancho Cucamonga, CA)