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Billy Leonard talks about his experience during D-Day during an interview at his grocery store in downtown Charleston, S.C., June 9, 2010. D-Day was the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944. By nightfall more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were dead or wounded, but more than 100,000 had made it ashore, securing French coastal villages. Mr. Leonard served as an Army private in the 505th Regiment with the 82nd Airborne Division. (U.S. Air Force photo/James M. Bowman)


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