Acting commander of a historic unit on D-Day, writes about WWII vets who took part in the Normandy invasion in 1944. A group of around 60 are traveling to...
In this file photo, allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach during a landing in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The D-Day invasion broke through Adolf Hitler's western defenses and led to the liberation of France from Nazi occupation. A group of around 60 World War II veterans will gather in Dallas before departing to France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day.
Conditions inside the prisoner-of-war camps were horrific; the men faced endless beatings and deprivation. Schrenk, who was imprisoned for more than 15 months, remembers the day the men in his camp defiantly sang “God Bless America.” In 2012, he became unlikely friends with the German pilot who shot his plane down.
Vernon Mitchell, 103, of Fort Worth, is preparing to return to a shoreline fraught with emotion. He hit the beaches of Normandy as a gunner with the 2nd Infantry Division. Just a few days later, his unit was ordered to clear the Cerisy Forest. As the American troops advanced, the Germans began a heavy bombardment. Mitchell was wounded, and two of his best friends died by the same exploding shell. He returned to duty just in time to fight the Battle of the Bulge.
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