[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 94 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H4338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           HONORING MONTANANS WHO FOUGHT AT NORMANDY ON D-DAY

  (Mr. GIANFORTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIANFORTE. Madam Speaker, 75 years ago, courageous Americans 
stormed the beaches of Normandy and parachuted behind enemy lines. 
Facing what Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower described as the German 
war machine, they fought for the cause of freedom.
  Many Montanans were there:
  Ed Seifert of Polson parachuted into Normandy. He would go on to jump 
into Holland during the Battle of the Bulge;
  Bud Olson of Choteau came under fire in a glider. He was the only 
survivor of 28 aboard, and he would go on to liberate a concentration 
camp;
  Corky Apple of Lewistown came off a landing craft on Utah Beach. He 
would go on to earn five Bronze Stars during the war;
  John Nelson of Lolo also landed on Utah Beach. He was with Patton's 
army when it liberated a concentration camp near the Czech border.
  As we mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, remember the brave 
Americans who destroyed the German war machine, liberated a continent, 
and saved the world from tyranny.

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