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still? >> i carry that with me -- no, not really now, but i it did then. >> we have someone else joining us right now from new orleans. the site of a great world war ii museum. now from that city professor of u.s. military history at missouri university of sicience and technology john mcmanis. he's the author of "the dead and those about to die: d-day at home you a beach." mr. mcmahnus, a few hundred yars behind us, tell us a bit about that outfit and what entailed with them that day. >> yeah, the big red one had fought in the mediterranean, north africa and sicily and they were thought of by senior leaders like patton and eisenhower as a go-to unit to gain objectives, a real fighting unit. off the line they were a bit of

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