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Thurmond recalls role in Normandy invasion
Web-posted 06/06/2002
The day the United States entered World War II in 1941, Strom Thurmond was a 39-year-old Circuit Court judge in South Carolina exempt from military service.

Comrades to reunite in France
Web-posted 06/06/2002
It's been more than half a century since Willis Irvin Jr. helped liberate the French town of St. Sever, Calvados, from Nazi soldiers.

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