greatestgeneration:6 June 1944 - 1000 hours At Omaha Beach, troops begin to regroup in small units
greatestgeneration: 6 June 1944 - 1000 hours At Omaha Beach, troops begin to regroup in small units, searching for exits off the beach. The beach is littered with dead and wounded troops, and the tide brings in dead men. Private Harry Schiraldi, a medic in Headquarters, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, is killed that morning by enemy machine gun fire. His remains are initially buried in Normandy before his family requests his remains to be returned to the United States, where he is now buried at Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York. His last letter home and the telegram his parents received are now part of the collection at The National WII Museum. -- source link
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