Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 43, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 September 1944 — GUARDED D-DAY PLANS [ARTICLE]

GUARDED D-DAY PLANS

Lieut. Col. Hugh J. Socks of Indianapolis headed a staff of highly trained officers which sent out all secret plans, records and orders directing the Normandy invasion, headquarters of the European theatre of operations has revealed to the Associated Press in a delayed dispatch. Col. Socks is the husband of Mrs. Martha C. Socks, 2920 Guilford avenue, and they have two children, Hugh J. Socks, Jr., age 7 and Roberta Socks age 5. Top secret documents relating to the invasion were handled with the utmost care and dispatch by Col. Socks’s unit of the adjutant general’s section jit headquarters of the Western base section. The documents were kept in a steel-walled vault in and old English house, a vault formerly used for family silver and other valuables. A huge steel key of a specially made pattern was used to lock the steel door which opened into the vault. Surrounding the vault were racks of thermite bombs to be used if action threatened to put the documents within reach of the enemy. Among the incidental tasks performed by the section under Col. Socks was distribution of thousands of copies of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s order of the tiy June 6 to soldiers in the Western base section. The distribution was carried out quietly and efficiently. Among the members of the section were two enlisted men from Indiana, Corporal Bernard R. Tearey of Aurora and Corporal Jack Linderman of South Bend. Mrs. Socks is the former Martha Oosten, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. Y. Oosten.