The veterans sat in wheelchairs. They saluted, briskly enough. Eight decades have gone by, many of them passed in silence because memories of the war were too terrible to relate.
A Jewish-American World War II hero who stormed Utah beach on D-Day and went missing after being ambushed in the Battle of Cherbourg has finally been found.
Lieutenant Nathan Baskind, the son of Jewish Lithuanian and Russian immigrants, served in D-Day then disappeared in the Battle of Cherbourg on June 23, 1944.
New England soldier killed in WWII to finally be buried wmtw.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wmtw.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Kansas WWII vet who survived 171 consecutive days of combat to be honored in Normandy yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.