Grafton. Some areas there are ten feet of water. Today was a tragic day. At least one west point cadet is dead and 22 others are injured after a crash involving a transport truck. Mason and a widows fight for recognition for one of the last Unsung Heroes of dday. He served his country well. The history needs to be told. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason reporting from normandy, france, where the allied troops who landed here 75 years ago were hailed today as liberators. President trump said, they won back this ground for civilization by opening a new front that ultimately pushed the nazis out of western europe. The dday invasion was the Largest Military operation by sea and air in history. More than 150,000 troops stormed the beaches, running directly into german gunfire. 2,500 americans died that first day. Today, cannons fired and planes flew overhead in honor of their sacrifice. And dday veterans now in their 90s visited the graves of fellow soldiers, many of whom were teenagers
For 30 hours, as mortar shells rained around him on Omaha Beach, Army medic Cpl. Waverly Woodson Jr. treated wounded Allied soldiers, even while wounded himself. For that brave.
WASHINGTON — Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in the D-Day invasion of France during World War II, is
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