Larry, I went through all the yellowed debriefing papers of every soldier who returned from the raid in the national archives to find the name of the Riley who stuffed a bangalore torpedo into the pillbox that got what was left of the regiment off the beach, into the casino and then the town.
His name was Private Tommy Greaves, 19, son of a charlady who never knew what happened to him, informed missing and presumed dead. She hoped he was still alive and maybe a little out of his head. She said, "When he left the house to go overseas, he said 'Some day you will be proud of me, Mom'" and I really am."
