June 8, 2024
On D-Day 2nd Lt. Leonard Anker who was a member of the 116th Infantry Regiment of the US Army 29th Division's second wave at Omaha Beach Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Leonard was wounded three times and was promoted to Captain as the "Fighting 29th" liberated France and Germany.
Eighty years ago, was June 6, 1944, D-Day. At a couple of minutes after midnight, American males in their teens or early twenties wearing either an 82nd or a101st patch on their left shoulder began hooking their harness to the wire. In nine seconds, 18 paratroopers loaded with 100 pounds including two cartons of cigarettes jumped out of their C-47 “Dakoda.” They jumped into the dark unknown over occupied France, held by the German troops for the past four years.
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