... to be, will be, and there is nothing you can do about it.' I sat back and enjoyed my first trip to Europe. Yet another rifleman who was carried to the beach in the LCVP's relates one of his incidents: "I got on the gun. I set the gun up, and we"re looking, we"re looking. He says, See if you can spot ... -power for D-day's success? The assault troops in the boats- LCVP's ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel), generally understood the importance of what they were about to try to do at Normandy beach. But much of what had been going on was top secret. The men in the first boat sections observe...

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