Martin “Marty” Sylvester didn’t find things so bad at Utah Beach when he landed on June 7, 1944, the day after D-Day. His life would get a lot worse.
Martin “Marty” Sylvester didn’t find things so bad at Utah Beach when he landed on June 7, 1944, the day after D-Day. His life would get a lot worse.
Among the roughly 9,400 graves at Normandy American Cemetery are those of four women: Mary Bankston, Mary Barlow, Dolores Browne and Elizabeth Richardson. They’re a reminder of the less-heralded roles American women played overseas during World War II.
A Jewish American soldier who was killed in France during World War II and mistakenly buried in a mass grave for German soldiers has finally joined his fallen comrades in Normandy.