[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 26, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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[Congressional Record: July 26, 1994]
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                               D-DAY JUMP

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                            HON. JIM BUNNING

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 26, 1994

  Mr. BUNNING. Mr. Speaker, last month just inland from the beaches of 
Normandy, at Ste-Mere-Eglise France, an historic event took place. 
Nothing like it has ever happened before and it is unlikely that 
anything like it will ever happen again. I'm speaking of the 19 U.S. 
paratroopers who parachuted from an aging C-47 to commemorate, in peace 
time, the D-day jump they made 50 years earlier in the heat of war.
  I ask my colleagues to join me, just for a moment, to pay tribute to 
the spirit of these men who risked their lives 50 years ago to win a 
war and then made the same jump again this year to remind the Nation 
and the world of the contributions of their fallen and forgotten 
colleagues in World War II.
  Like the vintage C-47 troop transport that they jumped from--the last 
of its kind--these men are true classics.
  The 19 U.S. army paratroopers who participated in the Normandy 
invasion and parachuted again during the 1994 D-day commemoration are: 
Guy Whidden (MD), Carl Beck (GA), Richard Falvey (NY), George Yockum 
(CA), Troy Decker (NC), Gordon King (WI), Thomas Rice (CA), Rollie Duff 
(FL), Robert Dunning (GA), Ed Manley (FL), William Galbraith (CA), 
Robert Williams (KY), Warren Wilt (KS), William Coleman (NC), Richard 
Case (NV), Arnold Nagle (OH), William Priest (FL), Emmert Parmley (CA), 
Richard Tedeschi (NY).

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