A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Lt. Col. Gerhard Bolland, an 82nd Airborne Division officer, described what it was really like to parachute during the invasion of Normandy.
Source: marinecorpstimes.com
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Column: That time in France when Sen. John Warner hoisted me on his shoulders. And no one took a photo.
The year was 1984, and columnist Mary Schmich was a reporter at the Orlando Sentinel, dispatched to Normandy to cover the 40th anniversary of the American D-Day invasion of France during World War II.
Source: chicagotribune.com