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Upstate WWII veterans returning to Normandy 80 years after D-Day
Joe Kenneth Jones, 100, departed Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport on Saturday morning, bound for Normandy ... World War II veteran in your family, click here to share pictures with us.
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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 ...
100-year-old veteran honored for service at Normandy during WW II
When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. "Ben" Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited Normandy with fellow veterans in June 2024 to remember that day. On Tuesday ...
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The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
Reenlisting at the outbreak of World War II, Roosevelt led four amphibious ... to deploy during the invasion of Normandy. His superior officer, Maj. Gen. Raymond "Tubby" Barton, initially rejected ...
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Stories Behind The Stars: Private Henry E. O’Brien
Prior to U.S. entry in World War II, the 11th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Division of the U.S. Army activated for service in ...