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Veterans recall D Day acts of courage in 1994 feature
18 New Castle residents share D Day memories from Utah and Omaha beaches. Harry Hess, Wallace Moore, Layton Huling, Walter Kerber and others recount invasion details, battles in Normandy, Rhineland and Hurtgen Forest, and postwar lives. Many served with 26th Infantry Division, 474th Anti Aircraft unit, or 451st Medical Co. as heroes.
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Harry Hess
Meadowland
Ellwood City
Utah Beach
L Co
Hess
Normandy
United States
Ellwood Works
U.S. Steel
Wallace R. Moore
Oak Tree Drive
Omaha Beach
Africa
Sicily
Layton Huling
RD 4
29Th Division Field Artillery
Rhineland
Central Europe
France
Berlin
Huling
United Engineering
Mesta
Walter Kerber
Pearson St
87Th Chemical Mortar
Kerber
Sunday
Youngstown
Robert Myers
87Th Chemical Mortar Battalion
4Th Infantry Division
Myers
New Castle
George Polenick
RD 5
26Th Infantry
North Africa
Germany
Hurtgen Forest
Polenick
Shenango China
Sam Sanfilippo
Summit View Drive
1St Infantry Division
Gold Beach
San Horpe
Sanfilippo
Paul List
Hillsville
474Th
Nordhausen
J.R
Pat’ Patterson
Volant RD 1
Patterson
Cherbourg
Aachen
Pat’s
James Poleno
Frazier Drive
112Th Infantry
Bulge
Remagen
Rhine River
Poleno
Jimmy’s
East Washington Street
Fountain of Youth
U.S. 224
Union Township
J. Fred Rentz
Harry Miller
Perry Township
101St Airborne
4Th Infantry