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I wish I woulda known about this four years back when I was in Normandy, I probably passed by not far from there.

Two nineteen year-old Airborne medics, more than 80 wounded, and an eventful three days....

Here's a story in the Military Times (??)...

https://www.army.mil/article/169172/angoville_au_plain_remembers_humanity_amongst_war#:~:text=In%20a%20small%20church%20in,one%20child%20in%20June%201944.

And a Youtube Video...



You can read up on stuff for years and still new stories crop up.












"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744

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Can't imagine.


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I'm sure those Antifa medics could show those guys a few things.


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Guy I use to work fors dad was a medic on Omaha beach. He saw Saving Private Ryan and said “yeah imagine doing that with no gun”. Tough old bird who was my neighbor until I was 8 , always had time for me even when I was in high school, great guy.

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Can anyone verify? I read somewhere that WWII medics made $2 less/ month than regular GIs.

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Fascinating story. Thanks for linking it.


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