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“I THOUGHT MY LEG WAS GONE. THAT WAS ONE TERRIBLE FEELING” ~ David Clinton Tharp, COMES A Soldier’s Whisper My father wrote this in one of his collection of wartime letters now preserved in the book, Comes A Soldier’s Whisper. You can read this letter in its’ entirety on the website www.comesasoldierswhisper.com But after serving with the 101st Airborne with the 502nd PIR, he miraculously made it through D-Day, Carentan, Holland and the Battle of the Bulge with, as he…..
I met a woman today that raved about this book, soon to be a major motion picture about an Army Air Force bomber crashing into the Pacific Ocean and surviving unsurmountable odds during WWII. Another book, but I must add to my reading list which is growing each and every day. We all have a story to tell. COMES A Soldier’s Whisper encourages you to post a share your stories. It can be a one liner, a paragraph or a…..
Jenny La Sala is the daughter of a Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient and will be interviewed by News 8 WROC Rochester on 2/14/2014 @ 3:55pm to present her book, Comes A Soldier’s Whisper. She’s compiled a book comprised of her father’s nearly 300 wartime letters from 1943-1945 written for his then sweetheart and future wife. “The letters serve as heartfelt reminder of the sacrifices that were made to preserve our freedom,” La Sala said. “When organized chronologically, they…..
Eisenhower tentatively set May 31, 1944, as D-Day for the Normandy Invasion. The official invasion order from the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington came on February 9, 1944 and read as follows: “You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces. The date for entering the Continent is the month of May, 1944. After adequate Channel Ports have…..
The following is a posted comment after one of my Comes A Soldier’s Whisper featured stories, that I felt needed to be shared, so heartfelt and a tribute to our veteran soldiers. We welcome shared stories, thoughts, memories and yes, even the tears. Author Peter Griffin has a beautiful book entitled Thoughts, Memories And Tears, available on Amazon.com. I just got it today and look forward to the collection of beautiful poems. Comes A Soldier’s Whisper remembering our veterans and…..
Raymond L. Dunlap was a 101st Airborne paratrooper with the 502nd PIR, making his final jump and passing away, Monday, December 2, 2013. His son, Jeff Dunlap recalls that his father was very proud to be a Screaming Eagle. He jumped into Normandy in 1944 on D-Day, and landed somewhere around Ste. Mere Elise. He had landed in a corral of horses that scared him to death, until he figured out what was going on. As it turned out, the…..
I have been receiving many compliments for the book video trailer, the voice in particular which can be viewed and heard on YouTube by simply typing Comes A Soldier’s Whisper. The name behind that beautiful voice is Ethan Sawyer. He is now in the process of reading my father’s wartime letters from the book Comes A Soldier’s Whisper which will be available soon in a book audio version. We are very excited about this next project. For those of you…..
Supreme Commander Eisenhower directed General Patton to “command” the First US Army Group (FUSAG), an entirely fictional formation whose purpose was to fool the Germans into thinking the Allies were aiming their invasion at the Pas de Calais, the nearest point between France and Great Britain. Patton threw himself into the FUSAG deception-Operation Fortitude-with gusto, allowing himself be sighted all over eastern England. Meanwhile FUSAG “headquarters” generated volumes of radio traffic, indicating to the eavesdropping Germans that the army group…..
Adolf Hitler made command changes for the Germans too. He appointed Afrika Korps hero Rommel to command a newly created Army Group B to defend the Atlantic Wall Brittany to the Netherlands against the expected Allied invasion, later known as D-Day. Rommel looked to his defenses. He believed that if the Allies were to be stopped, they would have to be checkmated on the beaches and thrown back into the English Channel on the first day. Steel-beam beach obstacles were…..
President Franklin Roosevelt lost sleep deciding who would lead the United States fight against Germany during the war. Once he made his decision, it would be Dwight Eisenhower who lost sleep while planning the greatest invasion in American history. He was a meticulous organizer and facilitator who always got the job done. Eisenhower was creative enough to adapt battle plans and strategies to the realities on the ground, and flexible and charmingly diplomatic enough to maintain cordial cooperation among the…..
