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Geo Galusha [CA], Walt Nowak, Roger Sirois [MA], Belgium

Chas Townsend [NJ] enjoying lunch in a bombed out German concrete bunker in Cerisy Forest, Normandy

La Pie qui Tette, Vierville, France, the first few days in Normandy.

Our living quarters for the first few days of the invasion: a bombed-out German bunker off the shores of Omaha Beach.

Chas Townsend [NJ] & Steve Mason [NJ]

Resting in a village outside of Bayeux, so named due to a coal mine that once existed here.

Images of the war's effect on a quaint village in Normandy

Banner in Le Molay, Normandy, welcoming the allied troops a few days after the initial invasion.

First contact telegram of just a few lines of comfort to my wife and family that I had survived the Initial DDay Assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944. A welcome word to ease the anxiety, fear and apprehension felt back home.

A silent street scene. Bombed buildings and rubble of war, only dust, destruction and death remains of a town in France.