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Archive Home > 2007 > June > 07 > D-Day seared in La Pine man's mind

D-Day seared in La Pine man's mind

But 'there's a lot of it that you don't want to remember,' Bob Shotwell says

By Yoko Minoura / The Bulletin
June 7, 2007

The sky was overcast, the waters of the English Channel choppy, World War II veteran Bob Shotwell recalled.

On the morning of June 6, 1944, Shotwell - a 20-year-old "farm boy from Iowa" - made the D-Day landing on the beaches of Normandy, a costly but successful invasion of mainland....

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