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Troops from the U.S. Army’s First Infantry Division wade into the waters of the Bay of the Seine towards Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, in a photo taken at 7:40 a.m. by Coast Guard Chief Photographer’s Mate Robert F. Sargent entitled “Into the Jaws of Death.” (National Archives)
United States Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William J. McGowan was 23 years old when he died near the village of Moon-sur-Elle in northern France. McGowan had grown up in the small town of Benson in western Minnesota,
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