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D-Day 75th Anniversary: A long, thin line of personal anguish | Ernie Pyle

BY: - June 6, 2019

This is the strewn personal gear, gear that will never be needed again, of those who fought and died to give us our entrance into Europe.

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D-Day 75th Anniversary: The horrible waste of war | Ernie Pyle

BY: - June 5, 2019

(Editor’s Note: In conjunction with the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, the Capital-Star is reprinting the timeless work of World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle. Over the next three days, we’ll be running a selection of Pyle’s columns from the Normandy beaches, in tribute to this turning point in history, and the men and women who served.) […]

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D-Day 75th Anniversary: A pure miracle | Ernie Pyle

BY: - June 4, 2019

In this column I want to tell you what the opening of the second front in this one sector entailed, so that you can know and appreciate and forever be humbly grateful to those both dead and alive who did it for you.