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Perconte, Frank (1917 - 2013); Perconte jumped into Normandy on Operation Overlord On June 6, 1944. He landed at Ste. Marie-du-Monte. After hooking up with men from different
units, he and his companions waited at a farmhouse. The farmer's wife told them that it was safe at night because the Germans came in the morning for milk. Perconte and the others
waited, however, and ambushed the Germans in the morning. He returned to his Company sometime after. He collected watches from dead Germans, which he showed to Private Albert Blithe.
He survived Carentan and made it back to England on July 9. He then jumped into Holland on September 17, as part of Operation Market-Garden. Sometime during the Operation, they suffered
< a fierce tank attack at the town of Nuenen. The Operation ended on September 25, but Perconte and the men continued fighting. They relieved a British unit on October 2 in an area known as
"The Island". They then took out the German unit on October 5. They then were relieved on November 26 by a Canadian unit. On December 17, Perconte and the others relieved the 28th Infantry
Regiment in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium, and were stationed at Bastogne, part of the Battle of the Bulge. Perconte described it as, "It was damned cold and the Germans were everywhere".
During the attack on Foy, Perconte was shot through the waist, and out the buttocks by a sniper, wounding him. He called it "A beautiful wound". At the town of Landsberg, while patrolling,
they discovered a Concentration Camp. He alerted Richard Winters of this, and they liberated the camp. 3"x5" card. $40.00