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Honoring heroes
AUBURN - The invasion of Normandy during World War II took place 62 years ago, but its impact has stayed with the lives of many for all those years.
“No one wanted to talk about the invasion,” said Dom DeBenedetto who fought with his fellow soldiers and friends in the 299th Combat Engineer Battalion with company A on that fateful day in 1944. “We were the first to hit the beach that day. It was terrible. We had explosives on our backs and we were diving in the waters.”
Auburn lost six men on the shores of Omaha Beach in what has gone down in history as D-Day.
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