Testimony of Stephen J. BODNAR, I Company - 377th Infantry Regiment:

     "After landing at Omaha Beach, the 377th Infantry Regiment was bivouacked near Trevieres, just few miles behind Colleville-sur-Mer.   One Sunday morning, a Catholic chaplain was having Mass in a field where we were bivouacked.  His altar was the tailgate of his jeep.  I, of course, was at that Mass.  He told us about the Church at Trevieres that was destroyed in the fighting. The chaplain asked the American soldiers to contribute money towards rebuilding the church.  We all contributed some of our invasion money.  After the war (I think), I received a small white stone made from some of the ruins of the church, which had a little piece of paper saying what it was.    A friend of mine in the Second Infantry Division (Indian Head) was engaged in that fighting. I gave him that Stone.  The members of the Catholic Parish in Trevieres placed the window to the 377th Infantry in the church in the honor and  memory of the generosity of the soldiers of the 377th Infantry.I would very much like to have the pictures of the Church and the window.  I have never seen that church but the next time I am in France I shall go to see it."