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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: Maj. Gen. John Raaen, Jr., U.S. Army, WWII, D-Day & Normandy Part 2
Description: Just before 8 a.m. on June 6, 1944, U.S. Army Captain John Raaen, Jr., of the 5th Ranger Battalion, landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy as the Allies launched their campaign to breach Adolf Hitler's Atlantic Wall and work to free Europe from Nazi tyranny. In our previous edition, Raaen, who is believed to be the last living American officer from Omaha Beach, described the extensive preparations for the D-Day landings, having his landing spot changed at the last minute, and how high tide and a beneficial brush fire on the bluff helped him and his men scale the...