As a teenager from the Penobscot Indian Nation in Maine, Charles Norman Shay pulled drowning troops to shore on Omaha Beach, earning a Silver Star as a medic on one of World War II’s defining days. In ...
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Sword Beach, Normandy 1944 – Then and Now
Sword Beach was one of the key Allied landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. This video compares wartime photographs and footage with modern-day views of the same locations, showing how the beachfront, ...
Shay was a combat medic assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo) Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a ...
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How the WWII Beaches of Normandy Look Today
This video takes viewers across the historic D-Day locations of Normandy, exploring the beaches, cliffs, and towns where the Allied invasion began. It revisits Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, and Sword ...
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (WOI-DT) – As the United States marks Veterans Day, a 98-year-old veteran in Iowa has been reflecting on his parachute jump over the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. Don ...
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