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vice president for education and access at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans ... as well as hundreds of ships and airplanes, in preparation for a ground invasion, the largest the world ...
Tolley Fletcher, now 100 years old and living in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area, remembers his experiences as a U.S. Navy gunner's mate during the D-Day landing in Normandy, France.
each carrying about 60 pounds of gear on their backs and descending on rope ladders from larger ships onto smaller landing crafts. "I felt for those soldiers," Fletcher, now 100 years old, told USA ...
Operation Overlord saw a mobilization of 2,876,000 Allied troops in Southern England, as well as hundreds of ships and airplanes, in preparation for a ground invasion, the largest the world had seen.
Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops made at Utah Beach.
Fletcher, who joined the Navy at 17 in late December 1941, said he and his shipmates were fortunate to be mostly out of the line of fire. "There was some shelling, not really a lot, and luckily we ...