FAMILY TIES

WHEN I SAW THE “CHALLENGE” PAGE in my October 2019 issue of World War II, I was shocked to see a photo of my uncle, Clifford Russell. He is the man lying in front of the tank on the right. I have another picture of him from that day that was in the May 15, 1944, issue of Life magazine. He had sent a letter home and said that General Eisenhower had come to inspect the troops and that they had taken pictures of him standing next to his tank.

My uncle and the rest of his crew died in France on July 5, 1944, when they ran over a mine; I was the first male born after the war, in 1946, so my mother named me