'We Do Remember': The 65th Anniversary of D-Day
Roanoke Times & World News › June 09, 2009
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Trees sheared off the glider's wings as the aircraft crash- landed with men and cans of gasoline to support the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944.
Sixty-five years ago, Pfc. James Bryant was aboard as the glider reached Normandy, France, during the early morning hours of June 7. He was 19 years old and attached to the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment of the famed 82nd Airborne Division.See the full content of this document
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'We Do Remember': The 65th Anniversary of D-Day
Today, Bryant is 84 and lives in Daleville. On Saturday, he joined an ever-dwindling number of surviving D-Day veterans and a crowd of about 4,000 at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford to mark the 65th anniversary of the massive Allied invasion of World War II.
Cooled by breezes and ser...See the full content of this document
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