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'I was talking to history.' World War II veteran and Berkshire Place resident recalls what is was like to storm the beaches of Normandy
At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...
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The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah ... to storm the beaches during the invasion of Normandy.
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A father’s Normandy memory: Amid the ‘thud, thud’ of bombs, he landed on Utah Beach
Traveling by ship across the English Channel the night of June 12, 1944, my father was below deck with the vehicle he would soon drive ashore at Utah Beach to face combat in World War II at last ...
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Surviving veterans of D-Day invasion return to Normandy for 80th anniversary
2024 4:01 a.m. Warren Goss watched as soldiers in front of him dropped — struck down by enemy fire — after the ramp of his Higgins boat lowered near Utah Beach in Normandy, France. Goss ...
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D-Day Beaches
World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were ... Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the D-Day Beaches.