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Titus County says farewell to Jake Narramore
www.dailytribune.net
[Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune] - "The idea was that the Air Force would go in ahead of us, tear up the beaches and blow up the German guns. But they missed some of the guns set down in concrete emplacements. "We came in by a German 88 emplacement. They were sinking ships and
Google News: War Horse: the Real Story, Channel Four
[The Arts Desk] but the cavalry's first encounter with machine-gun fire reads like something out of Sharp: they lost control of their mounts, were generally shot to shit, and “none of the cavalrymen got within 600 yards of the German guns”.
The Great Ealing Film Challenge 46: Sailors Three (1940)
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
[Huffington Post UK (blog)] awkward pratfalling side-kick role (there is a particularly nice piece of comedy business around him trying to steal the shells for the German guns, struggling up stairs and down corridors with each one, in order to throw it out a porthole).
George Francis Kerchner, Army Ranger who fought on D-Day
articles.baltimoresun.com
[Baltimore Sun] - After scaling 100-foot chalk cliffs on ropes attached to grapnels, their objective was to knock out the six 155 mm German guns that were firing down on Utah and Omaha beaches, as Allied soldiers attempted to scurry off the beach and to safety.
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