D-Day: Plus 1, Plus 2

It was military shorthand for the date one landed in Normandy. After the first wave of troops came ashore, thousands and thousands more followed, each man well aware of the sacrifices his comrades had made on June 6. The physical evidence was inescapable, but the sense of mission never diminished, no matter how long afterwards your ship pulled in and you stepped onto French soil.

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    Russell Mack Baldwin Collection Technician Five, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Utah Beach, France; Ardennes, Belgium; Holland; Germany; Austria.
    • Contributor: Legacies: Stories from the Second World War - Baldwin, Russell Mack - Swope, Thomas A.
    • Date: 1945
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    John D. Bonzer Collection Major, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - European Theater.
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    Ruth M. Dorsman Collection First Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Eustis, Virginia; Camp Livingston, Louisiana; Fort Dix, New Jersey; England; Omaha Beach, France; Normandy; France; Paris, France; Reims, France; Belgium; Germany; Fort…

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    Joseph M. Halicek Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Camp Wolters, Texas; Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky; England; Normandy, France; Belgium; Germany; Czechoslovakia; European Theater.
    • Contributor: University of Toledo - Halicek, Joseph M. - Fisher, Andrew L. - Jones, Tamara
    • Date: 1943
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    Marian Charlotte Jones Collection First Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Louisiana; Camp Barkley, Texas; France; Luxembourg; Germany; United Kingdom; Fort Dix, New Jersey; European Theater.
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    Lille Margaret Magette Collection Captain, Army Nurse Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Dayton, Ohio; Lincoln, Nebraska; Springfield, Missouri City, Missouri; Normandy, Rhineland, France.
    • Contributor: Gray, Annette - Machann, Barbara - Douglas County Libraries Archives and Local History - Magette, Lille Margaret
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    Burton Ruby Collection Sergeant, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Camp Wheeler, Georgia; Normandy, France; Saint-Lô, France; Paris, France; Germany.
    • Contributor: Lugar, Richard - U.S. Senate/Richard Lugar - Ruby, Burton - Sanders, Timothy J.
    • Date: 1943
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    Edna Nina Statman Collection First Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois; Bowman Field, Kentucky; England; France; Germany; Scotland; Belgium; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Statman, Edna Nina - American Red Cross, Greater Long Beach Chapter - Fuggiasco, Deedrah J. - Farrar, Mike
    • Date: 1944
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    John R. Sudyk Collection Corporal, Army, World War, 1939-1945 - Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Vermont; Tennessee; Virginia; France; Belgium; Germany; Czechoslovakia.
    • Contributor: Swope, Thomas A. - Sudyk, John R. - Legacies: Stories from the Second World War
    • Date: 1942
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    Glenn B. Weber Collection Sergeant, Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Miami, Florida; Madison, Wisconsin; Scotland; Cheedle, England; European Theater.
    • Contributor: Lugar, Richard - U.S. Senate/Richard Lugar - Weber, Glenn B. - Gibson, William M.
    • Date: 1942