D-Day Charles Durning
Participated in the Normandy invasion in WWII. Was injured in the Battle of the Bulge… he was awarded 3 purple hearts and a silver star.
Was one of a few survivors to the infamous attack on American POWs at Malmady, France. The surrendering engineering battalion, caught behind enemy lines when the main American Forces retreated, were gathered together and brought to a large field when German machine guns which had been hidden in trucks, were brought to bear upon them. Only a few men survived this attack and were witnesses to the event. More than 100 US Servicemen died. The scene was re-created in the movie, Battle of the Bulge, starring Henry Fonda.
Thank you Charles, for then and now.
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