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perform our toilets. Ate, slept and excreted 

in the same place. It was suffocatingly hot 

during the day, and with little ventilation 

and sometimes without water for thirty-six 

hours, quite a few passed out. 

Upon arrival in Limsburg, we had our first 

bath since the middle of July. We left Stalag 

XII A on August 24 and arrived at 4–B 

(Muhlburg) on August 26 and were put into 

barracks. ‘‘The camp was like heaven compared to the others. . . . I met a member of 

Tito’s band, age 15, and (who had been) 

wounded twice. There was a kid there, a machine-gunner, who was only eleven years 

old. . . . The Russians were treated horribly. 

In some Russian barracks cannibalism had 

occurred. They were like sticks, and when 

too weak to move were thrown in a lime 

pit. . . . One huge field there was fertilized 

with 10,000 bodies of Jews.’’ On September 

14th, CPL Fielding moved out as part of a 

working party. He passed through Dresden 

on the 15th and entered Sudatenland that 

night. On the 16th, the working party was 

housed at Falkensaw where it worked in coal 

mines. CPL Fielding went on his first sick 

call on October 6th due to boils. He was 

treated by a Serbian doctor in the Russian 

compound. A week and a half later, he developed an abscess and underwent surgery. A 

hole the size of an egg was left by a French 

surgeon purposely to keep him out of the 

mines for awhile. Mr. Fielding’s health worsened in November because of another abscess, swollen tonsils and diphtheria. 

Later an abscess was removed from the 

back of his head simply by cutting his head 

open without any painkiller. About a month 

later, he was returned to the commando and 

also to work in the mines. Rumors that 

Americans were coming closer began in 

April. Late in April, CPL Fielding and several other prisoners escaped and hid in a 

bomb shelter. He headed due west. The woods 

were full of Germans. Picking up information of SS troop movements, the group was 

able to avoid the SS. On April 27th (officially 

the 28th) they reached a Yank outpost. CPL 

Fielding later learned that those prisoners 

who stayed behind were the last to be liberated in Europe and when found were in such 

a state that many could hardly walk. A great 

many had died. 

CAPT FRANK X. RILEY (USCG-RET.)

Captain Riley graduated from the Coast 

Guard Academy on June 19, 1942. He was assigned as Executive Officer on LCI 323 which 

was designated as Task Force Command Ship 

(TFCS) and was the first LCI to leave the 

States. He served aboard the LCI off the 

North African, Italian and Sicilian coasts; as 

Commanding Officer of the vessel, he participated in the Normandy Invasion. During the 

Invasion at Normandy. Captain Riley remembers that two hundred troops were loaded in the troop compartment. His ship, a salvage vessel saved the lives of 1500 Army personnel and salvaged 30 Landing Craft Personnel Vehicles (LCPV) and 50 larger vessels 

known as LCMs. Six New York City firefighters were put onboard the Landing CraftInfantry (LCI) to control fires. General Omar 

Bradley rode the LCI twice, with his second 

ride being to Omaha Beach. 

CAPT QUENTIN R. WALSH (USCG-RET.)

Captain Walsh graduated from the Coast 

Guard Academy in 1933. On December 7, 1941, 

his ship (APA) Joseph Dickman was part of 

a secret U.S. Navy convoy ‘‘William Sail 

12X’’ approaching Cape Town South Africa. 

His ship returned to the United States on 

February 28, 1942 after having been diverted 

to India. His ship then became involved in 

the Battle of the Atlantic, surviving a torpedo attack May 15, 1942. Captain Walsh was 

assigned to the staff of Commander, U.S. 

Naval Forces, Europe in the Planning and 

Logistics Section. He was assigned to the 

planning for Operation Overlord and Phase 

Neptune and the logistics requirement for 

Cherbourg and LeHavre. He organized, 

trained and commanded U.S. Navy Task Unit 

127.2.8 which landed over Beach Utah attached to the 7th Corps, U.S. Army. ‘‘My 

Task Unit 127.2.8 (from June 26—June 29, 

1944): 

1. Cleaned out the last resistance in the 

Arsenal. 

2. Plotted and delivered the mine fields in 

the harbor to the British mine sweepers off 

the port. 

3. Established United States Navy Headquarters, Cherbourg. 

We had to have Cherbourg to sustain the 

invasion (Normandy) and the Germans knew 

it.’’ Task Unit 127.2.8 entered Cherbourg by 

going over the top of Fort duRoule with the 

79th Division on June 26, 1944. Subsequently, 

he led a heavily-armed unit, equipped with 

submachine guns, hand grenades and bazookas the cleaned out the last resistance in the 

Cherbourg Arsenal, established U.S. Navy 

Headquarters in Cherbourg, and, by interrogating slave laborers, Free French and German prisoners, obtained and plotted the 

mine fields in Cherbourg harbor. Captain 

Walsh carried out the reconnaissance of 

ports in Brittany from St. Malo to Brest attached to Patton’s Third Army, 8th Corps, 

until ordered to carry out the reconnaissance of LeHavre with the First Canadian 

Army on September 12, 1944. Captain Walsh 

considers his three most important contributions to the Invasion of Normandy as; U.S. 

Navy Task Unit 127.2.8, the capture of German mine fields, Cherbourg and the capture 

of Fort duHomet. 

These are just of few of the brave men who 

along with women saved the world. Without 

them and others like them, democracy as we 

know it, would not exist. We thank them for 

their heroism and salute them one and all. 

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ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 25, 

1995 

Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it 

stand in recess until the hour of 9 a.m. 

on Thursday, May 25, 1995; that following the prayer, the Journal of proceedings be deemed approved to date, 

the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, 

and the Senate then immediately proceed to a vote on the adoption of the 

conference report to accompany H.R. 

1158, the rescissions bill. 

I further ask unanimous consent that 

immediately following the vote on the 

conference report, the Senate resume 

consideration of S. Con. Res. 13, the 

concurrent budget resolution. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

Mr. COCHRAN. I now ask unanimous 

consent that the first vote tomorrow 

morning at 9 a.m. be 20 minutes in 

length, and the remaining votes in the 

sequence be limited as under the terms 

of today’s sequence of votes on the 

budget. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

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PROGRAM 

Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, for the 

information of all Senators, there will 

be a rollcall vote at 9 a.m. on the rescissions conference report. Immediately following that vote, the Senate 

will resume consideration of the budget 

resolution and will begin a series of 

rollcall votes on or in relation to remaining amendments to the budget. 

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RECESS UNTIL 9 A.M. TOMORROW 

Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, if 

there is no further business to come before the Senate, I now ask unanimous 

consent that the Senate stand in recess 

under the previous order. 

There being no objection, the Senate, 

at 8:42 p.m., recessed until Thursday, 

May 25, 1995, at 9 a.m. 

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NOMINATIONS 

Executive nominations received by 

the Senate May 24, 1995: 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

LINDA LEE ROBERTSON, OF OKLAHOMA, TO BE A DEPUTY UNDER SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, VICE MICHAEL B. LEVY, RESIGNED. 

IN THE MARINE CORPS

THE FOLLOWING-NAMED AIR FORCE ACADEMY GRADUATES FOR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE 

OF SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE U.S. MARINE CORPS, 

PURSUANT TO TITLE 10, U.S. CODE, SECTION 541: 

MARINE CORPS

To be second lieutenant 

CHRISTIAN R. FITZPATRICK, 000–00–0000 

DARREN M. HAMILTON, 000–00–0000 

RUSSELL L. HICKS, 000–00–0000 

NATHAN M. MILLER, 000–00–0000 

THE FOLLOWING-NAMED U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY 

GRADUATE FOR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TO THE 

GRADE OF SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE U.S. MARINE 

CORPS, PURSUANT TO TITLE 10, U.S. CODE, SECTION 541 

AND 5585: 

BRETT GREENE, 000–00–0000 

THE JUDICIARY

JOSEPH H. MCKINLEY, JR., OF KENTUCKY, TO BE U.S. 

DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY VICE RONALD E. MEREDITH, DECEASED. 

ROBERT H. WHALEY, OF WASHINGTON, TO BE U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON VICE JUSTIN L. QUACKENBUSH, RETIRED. 

B. LYNN WINMILL, OF IDAHO, TO BE U.S. DISTRICT 

JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO VICE HAROLD L. 

RYAN, RETIRED. 

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