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THE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE ON THE BEACH

THE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE ON THE BEACH

I volunteered to go to the Navy. And then we got to Scotland, they were looking for a hundred volunteers and I volunteered again to get into the demolition outfit.

THE LIEUTENANT THAT GOT SCARED BY COWS

THE LIEUTENANT THAT GOT SCARED BY COWS

“I was most worried about trying to remember all the things I was supposed to do, with the things I need to be concerned about,” begins Lt. Walter Chris Heisler, one of the US Army Paratroopers of ...

THE WORKHORSE OF NORMANDY

THE WORKHORSE OF NORMANDY

What “Ben” Curtis saw on that day was a lot of destruction. Aboard the Landing Ship Tank 539 of the US Navy, Ben told himself not to remember anything he saw at Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. ...