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79 Years Ago!
Real G.I. Joe’s, and Operation Overlord, D-DAY!
by Frank & Lin Vargo up knowing people that were our stories. But never a sad story,
Operation Overlord was Dad’s or Mom’s friends. They would mostly friendly recollections of just
the codename for the Battle of come over for suppers or just to talk plain life. How’s the garden doing
Normandy. A 1,200-plane airborne as friends do. questions or fishing tales of the one
assault preceded an amphibious I grew up with three of my that got away.
assault involving more than 5,000 Dad’s friends who were the most Why, I even got to go fishing
vessels. Nearly 160,000 troops pleasant kind of folks that a person with them, but I was a very young
crossed the English Channel on could ever want to know. They kid back then. Dad’s friends never
6 June, 1944 and more than two would laugh and joke and talk talked of harming anyone or even
million Allied troops were in France story. aiming a firearm at any one. No
by the end of August. Oh, the stories that I grew up siree!
Just about everyone has grown with. Fishing, hunting or work continued on page 2
Real G.I. Joe’s continued from front
Cellfish They were the apple pie American dads.
Now, Joe had been in the Army and he should
know plenty about the armed forces. Right? So one day
the family came for a quick visit and I asked “Joe” about
(noun) an individual who continues talking on the a military career. I asked him which branch he would
phone so as to be rude or inconsiderate of other people. recommend. He got a solemn, almost forlorn look over
Today: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms his usually smiling face, as if someone had hit him and
after 4pm. Sunny, with a high near 89. South southeast said: “Not a damn one. Stay out. Go to Canada“!
wind 6 to 10 mph. Now that was a surprise. I thought that he was
Tonight: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms kidding as he usually would do then following his
before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 64. North kidding would be a large guffaw, not just a laugh. This
wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. time it did not happen. He did not stay too long at dad’s
Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and place. He looked at me and gave me a hug and again
thunderstorms after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high near
89. North northwest wind around 8 mph becoming east in
reminded me not to go into the military.
the afternoon. Now on the other hand there was Bruno. Bruno
Wednesday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and was a gruff looking sort of man who was so soft spoken
thunderstorms, mainly before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with that you had to lean into his conversation to hear him.
a low around 65. Northeast wind 8 to 13 mph. His son, Tommy, was my age and we grew up together.
Thursday: A 50 percent chance of showers and Tommy’s dad had been in the Army infantry. Tommy
thunderstorms, mainly after noon. Mostly sunny, with a high joined the Army and became an interpreter fluent in
near 88. Northeast wind 9 to 14 mph.
Russian and was sent to Germany.
Thursday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and Bruno did not like the idea of his only son going
thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66. East
northeast wind 11 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. into the military, especially the Army.
Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then
Paul was our next door neighbor, kinda, on the hill
showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after noon. next to our place and loved to play golf. Pauly, his son,
Mostly sunny, with a high near 85. East northeast wind was also my age and we were classmates in High school.
around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of Pauly eventually went to OCS at Ohio State, joined the
precipitation is 60%. Army, and became an officer.
Friday Night: A 40 percent chance of showers. Mostly These three childhood friends and their dads were
cloudy, with a low around 62. East wind around 14 mph,
excellent roll models for family life. They loved life and
with gusts as high as 20 mph.
were great husbands and fathers as well as Americans.
Saturday: A 20 percent chance of showers. Mostly sunny,
with a high near 82. East wind around 15 mph, with gusts They and their families would attend our barbecues and
as high as 23 mph. we would go to theirs!
Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 58. East As you did, I’m sure!
southeast wind 13 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. After my stint in the military, I returned home
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 83. and went to school, but always in the back of my mind
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. there was wonderment as to what these three roll model
Monday: Sunny, with a high near 86. fathers did in the service of our country. I vaguely knew
that they were in the US Army and served during World
Feeling overwhelmed? War ll, but Operation Overlord, not even a clue!
Moving to Prairie Ridge, The Furthermore, I was shocked beyond belief when I
Manor, or Valley View? was attending their funerals.
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You couldn’t have pried it out of earned the right to be called an home he stayed in the Army
them, not that anyone tried. American! reserves, and still was in the tank
You see, Joe was Pvt. First Class When their eulogies were read corps.
Joseph Lazar, US Army. Paul was Pvt. at their funerals and the medals that I do not know what outfits Mr.
First Class, then eventually Sergeant they received were revealed it was Lazar and Mr. Thomas were in. They
Paul Stazen. Last but definitely not eye opening. French decorations fought on Omaha beach in France
least was Pvt. First Class Bruno were presented to U.S. service and then in the European theatre
Thomas. All of their names are on a members extensively during World together. But they went to war so
very large granite memorial at Lake War I and World War II. By far, the you and I can sit and drink a glass
Anna Park in Barberton, Ohio, my Croix de guerre was of brew in peace on a summer’s
home town. the most commonly eve. Well, for now, at least. We can
I had the honor to have these bestowed decoration thank our lucky stars for men like
three “extra” dad’s as friends who to United States these. The “quiet ones”!
took me along with their sons to service members of Thank God for what gift
ballgames, and picnics. all ranks. The Silver these soldiers and thousands just
And yet I doubt that there are Star, the Bronze like them have given to you and
many kids who had grown up with Star and the Purple me. It is called FREEDOM! Don’t
three heroes of World War II who Heart were others. lose it.
landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, Mr. Stazen, after Omaha Beach, They are gone now, and I
at the same time, as friends, and role I was told by his wife, Fran, finally miss them dearly. But I have NOT
models. became a Tank Commander in forgotten!
I could be wrong. But I was Patton’s third army and advanced to And so it goes.
fortunate to have known them. They Berlin, Germany. When he returned ~ Frank and Lin

Letter’s Home on The Day of Invasion June 6, 1944

Not too many Glasgow folks do not know Mike Freedom is all about. Mike gave permission and here
Otterberg. I have the good fortune of knowing him for it is. Some of the younger generation won’t take the
several years now. time to look up from their “lookity box’s” and give a
But it had been a dry spell in visiting when I ran second notice to the letters. But those of us who go to
into him the other day and he mentioned our article memorials at cemetery’s and write stories about people
for Memorial Day. He said that his father was also will give a darn.
involved in Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion Thomas Paine once wrote: THESE are the times
that put America on the shores of France, particularly that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the
Normandy, France and the beaches of combat. Their sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the
names were: Sword, Juno, Utah, Gold, and of course, service of their country!
Omaha. All saw fighting, death and destruction. So we, Lin and I, are hoping that you take the time
You see it in movies and read it in books but few of to read Mitchel’s letter’s home to his family and on
us have actually talked with the real participants. June 6, remember what this man as well as thousands
Mike briefly told of his father’s involvement on that of others went through. Without letters like Mitchel
fateful day and then the wonderment of that involvement Otterberg’s you will say the Operation Overlord was
got to me and so I wrote to Mike later asking about his an invasion that several countries took part in. But if
dad’s D-Day involvement. Well, I received a reply late you want a real smack-in-the-face reality check, go
in the evening with an attached new article with three to France, particularly Normandy. Then maybe, just,
short letters by Mike’s father, Mitchel Otterberg to maybe, you will see it through the eyes of those thankful
Mitchel’s wife. people such as Dany Patrix. She explains the invasion
It is an eye-opener to anyone who just gets a chance in the movie: “The Girl Who Wore Freedom”.
to read the article. Watch the movie, grab a tissue, shed a tear for those
I asked Mike if I could share the letters here for who hoped and prayed for freedom from occupation.
you to read and perhaps understand what America and A big thank you to Mike Otterberg who took the
time to share. We know
that there are others out
there with like stories.
Write it down, before your
history is lost forever or in
some cases re-written to
fit a need that some want
you to believe.
RIP Mitchell
Otterberg, and thank you
for your service. We are
free thanks to you.
And so it goes!
~ Frank and Lin

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Did you know? where the German troops I tried to explain

and artillery were built up.
By August 1944, all of • The “D” stands for Day.
northern France had been
BURGER to my four-year-old son
that it’s perfectly normal
to accidentally poo your
D-Day and H-Hour stand
liberated, and in spring for the secret day/time an pants…
of 1945 the Allies had operation is scheduled to But he’s still making
defeated the Germans. begin. fun of me!
Historians often refer to • Code names for the five
D-Day as the beginning beaches where the Allies
NIGHT Scientists have

of the end of World War landed: Utah, Omaha, Wednesday Nights invented a car that runs
on parsley…They hope
II as the Normandy
Gold, Juno, and Sword. Serving 5:00-7:00 PM to use this technology to
invasion began to turn the • The date June 5, 1944, with Sam Waters at the Grill, make trains run on thyme!
was originally chosen and the Elks crew in the kitchen
tide against the Nazis. A for the invasion, but bad
I read recipes the
significant psychological weather forced the Allies Accepting TO-GO Orders same way I read science
blow, it also prevented fiction...
to postpone a day. On Elks Hours:
Hitler from sending troops the morning of June 5, I read to the end and
Wednesday - Friday
from France to build up after his meteorologist say, “Well, that’s not going
predicted improved 4:00 - 10:00 PM to happen.”
his Eastern Front against conditions for the following
the advancing Soviets. On day, Eisenhower gave the
May 8, 1945, the Allies go-ahead for Operation
formally accepted the Overlord. He told the
unconditional surrender troops: “You are about to
embark upon the Great
of Nazi Germany. Hitler Crusade, toward which we
had committed suicide a have striven these many
week earlier, on April 30. months. The eyes of the

D-Day facts
world are upon you.”
• More than 13,000 aircraft
and 5,000 ships supported
• The D-Day invasion was
the operation.
the largest naval, air and
land operation in history, • Although largely forgotten
and within a few days by history, nearly 2,000
about 326,000 troops, African Americans were
more than 50,000 vehicles among the troops who
and some 100,000 tons stormed the beaches of
of equipment had landed. Normandy.
The invasion’s code name
• Allied casualties on D-Day
was Operation Overlord.
have been estimated at
• General Dwight D. 10,000 killed, wounded,
Eisenhower (1890-1969) and missing in action:
commanded the operation, 6,603 Americans,
and plans were made to 2,700 British, and 946
land in Normandy, west of Canadians.

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Montana Adventures
By Mike Brandt
If you’re anything like me you probably check out
these road signs to see what it says. I like to explore new
places and learn more about old places.
There’s a rest area between Jordan and Winnett
that was built a few years ago. It’s even better than the
one between Glasgow and Hinsdale. (Winnett residents
call it the Taj-mah-sh...). Anyway, there are two signs
telling what historic place or places that were in that
area.
One sign is Fort Musselshell, located in Garfield
County near Mosby. The fort was located on the
Missouri River 35 miles north of Mosby. It was a trading
post in the 1960s and 1870s. The only whites in that part
of the state were woodchoppers for the Missouri River
steamboats, wolfers, trappers and Indian trappers.
The Crows and Gros Ventre Indians traded at the
fort. A buffalo robe brought them 3 cups of coffee, or 6
cups of sugar, or 10 cups of flour.
It was a tolerably profitable business from the traders
stand;point. The Assiniboine and Sioux regarded this
post as an amusement center where bands of ambitious
braves cloud l.ie in ambush and get torah=gat practice
Liver Eating Johnson
city was named after a steamboat captain and was a log
on careless whites. cabin and stockade. The owners hoped that ships and
Musselshell became a cattle rustlers handout but mining camp traders would funnel freight passengers
after a Vigilance Committee stretched a few of them and gold through then rather than Fort Benton.
they seemed to lose interest. The scheme was unsuccessful and the steamboats
Located in the fort were a gunshop, two saloons and would not stop and the Lakota Indians harassed the
a dozen log cabins, all built at intervals along the high residents. By 1868 the settlement was all but abandoned.
bluff bank of the river with stickades around the stores. It was Kerchival City that one of Montana’s most
A townsite was laid out, and hopes were entertained, colorful characters, John Jeremiah Johnson, earned
that a military post would be established, and that this the sobriquet “Liver-eating Johnson” after a bloody
would be made the shipping point for Montana freights skirmish with the Lakota in 1869. You should know the
instead of Fort Benton on account of the difficulties of story of Johnson.
navigation of the upper river. But all of that was wiped Check out these signs and the magnificent view
out as no military post was established. north of Highway 200. It’s worth the stop and it is
The Indian trade declined and with the completion historic.
of the Union Pacific Railroad the river route lost
imp;lortance for a time, and when it was revived not MONTANA TRAGEDY
musselshell but Carroll was selected as the shipping Great Jail Break of 1903
point. Eventually nothing was left of the fort. Valley County Pioneer Museum
June 6, 2023 • 2:00 - 3:00 PM
There are three businesses in the area. Harris Hunt You are invited to meet the Author, Sarah Nutting
& Fort Musselshell Outfitters, Fort Musselshell RV Park, who will sign purchased books.
which is located right by Highway 200 and Montana 120th Anniversary of the Jail Break
Riverview Getaway near Mosby. Passionate lawmen, Sheriff Cosner, and Undersheriff Rutter, fought Bill Hardee, a “demented
criminal” awaiting the gallows, and his desperate cell mates who escaped from the Valley
The other sign is of Kerchival City, which was built County Jail in Glasgow. [Historical Fiction]
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