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Saving lives on D-Day

Witness: World War 2 Collection by BBC

Jun 6, 20249:06Society & Culture

Charles Norman Shay was a field medic in the United States Army when he landed on the Normandy beach codenamed Omaha on D-Day. On June 6, 1944, the US 1st Infantry Division faced a bombardment of machine gun fire from th...

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