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By JOHN PITTSStaff WriterD*Day, that historic day of June 6, 1944, which signaled the bloody invasion of Normandy and the eventual defeat of Germany, is 30 years old today.If you’re under 20, D-Day probably means no more than a vague chapter in a high school text book, or perhaps the exciting subject for the book and movie, “The Longest Day, abattle account that reads almost like fiction.manhand-to-hand combat, door-to-door fights, bleeding and dying and two days later D Company had secured Ver-ille and on its way to the guns.But at Point Du Hoc and the gun placement sites, the company was met with a surprise. The guns for which they had fought so hard and bravely weregone. Two days before, it was learned, after heavyrecallspounding from the Air force, the guns had been moved six miles inland.Miller and his Company D continued to assist the invading forces for the next week and advanced their lines 10 to 12 miles inland, before they were called down the coast to execute a clean-up mission on the Brent Peninsula, which had been cut off from the rest of the German Army.THAT WAS the function of the Rangers — to take the “volunteer” missions — and the casulaties.“Everyone in the Rangers was a volunteer andcould be transferred out at anytime,” said Miller, “but they elected to remain because the Rangers were the fiercest, finest, best4trained fighting men in the U.S. Armed forces.Patterned after the British Commandos, we considered ourselves a cut above even the Marines.”“Our company was reduced by 40 and 50 percent several times, but they would just keep sending us fresh Rangers.”It was impossible to estimate the kill record of the Rangers, but in the(Continued on Page 2|Ceremony marks D-Day near Normandy
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Pecos Enterprise
Pecos, Texas, US
Thu, Jun 06, 1974
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