Happy Birthday: Charles Durning (1923–2012)

Charles Durning (1923–2012)

Born: February 28, 1923 in Highland Falls, New York, USA
Died: December 24, 2012 (age 89) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Married to: Mary Ann Amelio (1974 – 24 December 2012) (his death)
Carole Doughty (1959 – 1972) (divorced) (3 children)

[on reaching Omaha Beach after falling in the water] I came up and I didn’t have a helmet, a rifle, nothing. I hit the beach, the guys pulled me in who were already there, I’d lost everything; but they said ‘you’ll find plenty of them on the beach, rifles, helmets, that belong to nobody’. Nobody knew where we were supposed to go, there was nobody in charge, you were on your own. All around me people were being shot at, I saw bodies all over the place; but you didn’t know if they were alive or dead, they were just lying there.

[about D-Day] We got behind this tank to protect ourselves; we’re holding our own when they called us over to them. I asked the sergeant ‘you want me to go first or you go first?’ He said ‘you go first, I’ll be right behind you’. I heard an explosion, and I turned around, and his torso was here, and his body was over there.

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