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WWII D-Day veteran, awarded France's Legion of Honor
It’s June 6, 1944, Joseph Petrucci is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with 30-some fellow comrades in a landing craft hurtling through the English Channel toward Omaha Beach. Read more...
[Posted: 2016-04-29 07:24:18]
D-Day veteran Verdun Hayes celebrates 100th birthday
D-Day veteran Verdun Hayes made the jump at Dunkeswell Airfield near Honiton, Devon, to raise money for the North Devon Hospice. Read more...
[Posted: 2016-04-28 06:29:32]
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ONEIL JOHN J
29TH INFANTRY DIVISION
May John and all his comrades - rest in eternal peace. Forever grateful for your sacrifice to provide our freedom. God Bless.
Honored by Bill and Patsy Galiher
[Posted: 2024-06-05 20:58:12]
WOLTERS HENRY H
1ST INFANTRY DIVISION
Every time when I go to Normandy I pay my respect to Henry Herman Wolters and send the photo's from his grave to his Family.
Honored by Herman Wolters
[Posted: 2024-02-29 20:28:14]
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THE NORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY and MEMORIAL
  BEKELESKY LAWRENCE A  


Unit: 29TH INFANTRY DIVISION
Rank: CORPORAL
Hometown: SUMMIT COUNTY (OH)

Status: KILLED IN ACTION
Date of Died: JUNE 6, 1944

Plot-Row-Grave: B-5-44 [See map]




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Let us remember those young soldiers who changed the course of history with their sacrifice. Let us commit ourselves to remembering their sacrifice by cherishing the freedom they bought for all generations that follow.
Honored by Laurent Lefebvre [June 13, 2024]
Thank you Lawrence, rest in peace my dear friend
Honored by Charles Raphael [2017-06-25 12:29:40]
I visited Europe in the summer of 2013 and took a picture if the resting place of Lawrence bekelwsky. I found the American cemetery on the Normandy coast over whelming. I stood there at Lawrence's grave site and pondered the life of one ask to commit his life for the freedom of others. To Lawren
Honored by Robert Conn [2014-04-27 02:08:54]