D-Day 60 Years On: They Didn't Get Five Yards

Liverpool EchoJune 04, 2004

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IT IS impossible to imagine the ordeal faced by many of the men who took part in the first wave of landings at Normandy.

This horrifying account describes the experience of the men of Able company,116thInfantry, 29thDivision, which took part in the landings at Omaha beach, where some 2,500 men were killed or wounded.

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D-Day 60 Years On: They Didn't Get Five Yards

It was written S. L.AMarshall,a United States combat historian with the rank of colonel, who,from detailed notes of the Normandy landings,recal...

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