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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 ...
West Palm Beach centenarian reflects on extraordinary life of World War II heroism
In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France, where he suffered a shrapnel wound ... and found work as a draftsman ...
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Capture the Guns and Save D-Day
D-Day. At Pointe du Hoc the Rangers need to scale the cliffs and capture or disable the guns. Aside from the forces that are to fight at the five major landing zones, many smaller groups do their duty ...
Drunk woman smashes car into World War II tank used on D-Day
A woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a British World War II memorial in France. The memorial, a Churchill AVRE ...
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West Palm Beach centenarian reflects on extraordinary life of World War II heroism
In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France ... work as a draftsman for a company that manufactured aircraft landing gear. It was 1941, and tensions between the governments of the ...