“They nailed us to the beach right there, like you’d nail a coon’s skin to the barn door. They knocked out our three tanks, but we hid under them and fired back a long time until some guys crawled under the wire, up the cliffs, down a piece and come on ’em from behind. We were in the second boat. Nobody got out of the first boat.”
– a similar article can be read here…
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FDR’s D-Day prayer can be read here
