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The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the morning of June 6, 1944. At the age of 56 ...
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The first American on the beach at D-Day served through the Vietnam War
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. who came to the hospital ... Roosevelt, along with Schroeder and his men, would be landing on Utah Beach. The 8th Infantry had been training their whole careers for this ...