They were owned by Captain Thomas Dawson, who was one of the few officers entrusted with the highly classified details of the Allied invasion of occupied France.
Alex Uhrlaub, 17, of San Anselmo and Katherine Hagee, one of his teachers at San Domenico School, delved into the life of a Northern California soldier who was killed in the mission to save France.
For three local World War II veterans, their first visit to the Normandy American Cemetery and the windswept Omaha and Utah beaches where American troops landed on D-Day left a