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The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944. At the age of 56 ...
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World War II Army veteran celebrates 100th birthday
landing on Utah beach. “We went on troop ship of course and we got so far they threw a cargo net over and they had landing crafts come beside and we climbed down the cargo net into the landing ...