Ernest Hemingway's involvement in D-Day

“Those of our troops who were not wax-gray with seasickness, fighting it off, trying to hold on to themselves before they had to grab for the steel side of the boat, were watching the (battleship) Texas with a look of surprise and happiness. Under the steel helmets they looked like pikemen of the Middle Ages to whose aid in battle had come some strange and unbelievable monster. There would be a flash like a blast furnace from the 14-inch guns of the Texas that would lick far out from the ship. Then the yellow brown smoke would cloud out and, with smoke rolling, the concussion and report would hit us, jarring the men’s helmets. It struck your ear like the punch of a heavy, dry glove.” - Hemingway on the D-Day landings. While he was not allowed to join the troops on the first wave, he was able to land on Omaha Beach with the seventh wave.

He also said: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.”

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