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Video: World War II Veteran Gordon Hearne Describes The War Experience

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As an anti-aircraft gunner, Gordon Hearne, 21, landed at Omaha Beach, Normandy on June 7, 1944. That July, the U.S. Army assigned his battalion to the 28th Infantry Division. He survived five European campaigns unscathed. After the war, Hearne returned to his native Los Angeles. In 1948, for an English course at the University of …

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