A French GI at Omaha Beach

Bernard Dargols was a young Parisian student working in New York when war broke out in 1939.

While his family remained in France and was threatened by the Vichy regime's anti-Semitic laws,i?1/2Bernard decided to enlist in the US Army, convinced that it would be more useful to fight the occupying forces. Following his long military training, Bernard became a GI in the Military Intelligence Service, 2nd US Infantry Division, and landed on the infamous Omaha Beach in June 1944.i?1/2He took part in the liberation of Normandy, Brittany and the Ardennes, before becoming a member of the CIC, the American counter-espionage service, and was finally demobilised in 1946. This extraordinary story of the 'GI from the Place des Vosges', is told here by his granddaughter, Caroline Jolivet.