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In reply to the discussion: Happy V-E Day! [View all]
 

Cooley Hurd

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7. Helluva thing to go thru at that age...
Mon May 8, 2017, 12:51 PM
May 2017

My Dad died when I was 2 1/2 so I never had an opportunity to ask him about his experience. But my uncles, two who went ashore on D-Day at Normandy, told me about it. Both were certain they were going to die that day. My Uncle Bill drove a Higgins boat up to the beach and was shot in the bum. He thought that was funny - that they shot him in the ass.

Both uncles survived the war.

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