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May 2003
WWII History
Attack on The Merville gun battery during D-Day
By Robert Barr SmithJust boys facing danger, please God make them men; If they live through the danger, make them boys once again. —Sergeant Ginger Woodcock, June 5, 1944
On the morning of June 6, 1944, the greatest amphibious fleet in history bore in toward the coast of Normandy. Read more