Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1944 — Page 8

ON D-DAY

+ Nothing Eise Hay Happens Ex- ~ cept 2 Sinkings, Battle— It's ‘Pushover.’

A 20-year-old Indianapolis coast guardsman had two landing craft shot from under him, was washed out of a foxhole, lost the seat of his pants and was chased by the Germans. But he *pushover.” “Why, 1 wasn't wounded at all” Coast Guardsman Gene Oxley told Leo S. Disher, United Press war correspondent. He is resting in England after carrying the landing line of his LCI to shore off Trouville, Prance. Nazis Mow Down Yanks

“They sent 36 men in on the line] and I didn't see more than seven = reach shore —the Germans got = = them.” he said, Oxley was anchor|= s man on the line, holding it fast!S after the line anchor was shot away. “I Jost my shoes, my life jacket, and the seat of my pants,” he said, *and finally let loose to dig myself|S a foxhole, but the tide washed me out of the foxhole.” Oxley physician and he tried to help other = fighting men washed up on the =

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after we had taken some wounded from the beach to the ship, a Ger-| man battery got the ship.” Another landing craft picked up Oxley. “I told one of the crew I guessed IT was just a jinx,” he said, “and Just as I said that, the German shelled the ship and I was back in| the water again.” A U. S. destroyer sent eraft to Pick up the survivors, and Oxley landed back in England. “Darndest round trip I ever heard of” he complained. “I didn't even! get to stay on the beach, when it| was so hard to get there.”

NO HEROES, JUST BIG TEAM, VETERAN SAYS

NEW YORK, June 20 (U, P).— Cmdr. Joseph (Jumpin’ Joe) Clifton, who came unscathed through a year's hard fighting in the Pacific as chief of air group 12, described his British and American carrierbased unit today as a “team that worked like a team with no heroes, no hot-shots.” The Paducah, Ky., ace said it was true the Americans “kind of ran the show,” in air combat in that area, the co-operation among the British carrier, the British planes and the American unit was “real teamwork.”

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