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For the First French Town Liberated on D-Day, History Is Personal

By JAMES G. NEUSS Published: June 6, 2014 Sainte-Mère-Église, France — The American paratrooper who landed here on D-Day, June 6, 1944, was supposed to be a replacement for a soldier who had been killed.

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