Invasion Beaches Ten Years After D-Day at Normandy
A Normandy memorial feature recalls June 6 1944 as American and Allied forces stormed Omaha and Utah beaches. Veterans and visitors remember the cost of war, the hedgerows, and the 9,383 Americans buried at Colleville sur Mer. The piece details the invasion plan, key leaders, and the enduring symbol of the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach.
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Omaha Beach
Normandy
Europe
Vasion
Omaha
Utah
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Erwin Rommel
Omar N. Bradley
North Africa
Sicily
Clarence Heubner
Colleville-Sur- Mer
Roly-Poly
Madam Dossmann
St. Laurent- Sur-Mer
Alexander Andre
France
Andre
Andrew
Utah Beach
Colleville
St. Laurent
United States
America
Saint Laurent
Albert Dossmann
Rene Bataille
Pierrette Born At Moment of D-Day Attack
New York dispatch describes Pierrette Lenoury born at 5 a.m. on D-day June 6 1944 near Utah Beach. Her family endured bombing and shelling during birth and early days before she thrived as a farm girl. Look magazine features her in a photo essay noting she now enjoys peaceful life.
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New York
INS
Petite Mademoiselle Pierrette Lenoury
France
Pierrette
Utah
Look
Look Magasine
Dday
Pierrette Lenoury
Ravenaville
Current Look
This Story Just Didn't End Right
William Engellis, 39, spotted a prowler in his New York yard at dawn. He chased on foot and by his 1951 convertible. After cornering the intruder, Engellis confronted him as the prowler drew a gun, robbed him of 71 dollars, and fled in the car.
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New York
William Engellis
Engellis
Old City Hall Sold For More Than It Cost
Cairo Michigan city officials sold its old city hall for 9200 dollars, above the 7000 dollar construction cost from 1887. The sale includes a provision that the building be torn down within a year after the city moves to a new city hall.
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St. Lois
Old City Hall
Cairo
Mich
Thats a Lot For One Vote In Nevada Appeal Ad
Dorothy Hersey declares she will sell her vote in the upcoming election. She placed an ad in the Nevada Appeal offering her vote to anyone who will find a home for her mother cat and four kittens. The blunt plea underscores voter pressure and local sentiment in Carson City.
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Carson City
Nev
Dorothy Hersey
Nevada
Prison baseball game ends after inmates chase ball
At Fort Pillow Tennessee a prison baseball game was halted when eight convicts chased a fly ball over the fence into the yard and continued the pursuit for an hour before guards tagged them out.
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FT. Pillow
Tenn
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Don Whitehead
J. Lawton Collins
U.S. Seventh Corps
Utaha Beach
Col
George Taylor
USS
Samuel Aor
Taylor
82Nd
101St Airborne Divisions
Edmund Duin
Nashua, N. H
Telegraph
Ouin
Russia
Oain
Arromanche
352Nd
Col. Taylor
Paul Gale
Joe Dawson
John Griffin
Carl W. Giles
Vincent Dove
Indiana
Pvt. Dove
Collins
Cotentin
Cherbourg
George Patton
St. Lo
Trevieres
Isigny
Carentan
St. Merc Iglise
Montebourg
Low Countries
Germany
Leslie J. McNair
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Nelson Walker
Ste. Mere Eglise
Mrs. Brummett
Sally
Red
Brummett
Kehrer-Wheatland CO
Miles P. Sutera
Pig
Lafayette, Ind
Gertrude Brummett
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Hall-Erfest
Third Avenue
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