Floyd "Ben" Schwartzwalder was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart, four battle stars, the Presidential Unit Citation, and was promoted to the rank of Major for his performance during the D-Day invasion.
The farmhouse was a critical and strategic part of the Allied invasion and commandeered by Major John Howard after the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry captured Pegasus Bridge at 12.16am on June 6, 1944, in one of the first acts of D-Day.
A group of women in Criccieth have been hard at work contributing to ‘The Longest Yarn’ exhibition, which will be unveiled at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Carentan.