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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: Ray Lambert, U.S. Army Medic, First Wave Omaha Beach
Description: "So I prayed that God would give me the strength to save this man. I wasn't really concerned about asking for my life, but I wanted to save this guy."On June 6, 1944, U.S. Army medic Ray Lambert came ashore in the first wave on Omaha Beach with the 1st Infantry Division, known as "The Big Red One."Lambert describes the carnage on the beach as the Germans hammered the American forces. Lambert was shot multiple times but kept administering aid to the fallen troops.Omaha Beach was his third amphibious landing of the...