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DDay73: Hémevez Massacre (Web)

  • Regional Media Center AFN Europe
  • June 3, 2017 | 3:33

The people of Hémevez honored fallen U.S. soldiers with proper burials in June 1944 and continue to remember them after 73 years...In memory of the 507th paratroopers who lost their lives at Hémevez, France, on D-Day.While the nature of war has changed dramatically and the battlefield has shifted into other domains, the courage and valor of the service members who took part in D-Day are everlasting.

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