A French GI at Omaha Beach - English Version

Number of pages: 168

Language : English 

Bernard Dargols was a young Parisian working in New York when war broke out in 1939. While his family remained in France, living under the threat of the Vichy regime and its anti-Semitic laws, Bernard decided to enlist in the U.S. Army, convinced that he could make himself useful and fight the occupying forces. After lengthy military training, Bernard became a GI with the Military Intelligence Service, 2nd Infantry Division, and landed on the famous Omaha Beach in June 1944. He took part in the liberation of Normandy, Brittany and the Ardennes before becoming a member of the CIC (Counter Intelligence Corps), the American counter-espionage service, and was finally demobilized in 1946. 

The extraordinary story of this "GI de la Place des Vosges" is told here by his granddaughter, Caroline Jolivet.