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Where are you from? Oklahoma City, OK

Please enter your comments? My dad, Jack Moore, was in the 937th aviation camoflage engineer batalion in WW2. They landed in Normandy Omaha Beach approximately D-day+10. The allied forces had still not broken out from the hedgerows and there was still German resistance in the towns of St.Lo, Cann and Carentan. Their mission was to build both dummy airfields for the Germans to expend their bombs and hasty runways for fighter planes to take off from. They traveled through France, Belgium, Luxemberg, Holland, and Germany. Dad did talk of being strafed by German fighter planes and a buz-bomb landing in a nearby hedgerow that killed a soldier. He told me a story of how a German fighter plane dived at him from above while he was in a rail yard trying to hide in the snow on a moon lit night between some rail road tracks. The plane dropped a bomb about a hundred meters down the tracks (too close for comfort). The 937th trained hard to fight the enemy if necessary however as dad says it, "I got a good ringside seat to see the war and never fired on the enemy."