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Normandy & D-Day

Grenadier Heinrich Severloh: The German Soldier Who Fired 12,000 Rounds at Omaha Beach

Grenadier Heinrich Severloh, 1st Company, 726th Infantry Regiment

Stationed at strongpoint WN62 on the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach, nineteen-year-old German Grenadier Heinrich Severloh fired an estimated 12,000 rifle rounds...

Normandy & D-Day

The Bedford Boys: The Town That Lost Everything in Fifteen Minutes

Captain Taylor Fellers & Company A, 116th Infantry

On the morning of June 6, 1944, a small Virginia town of 3,200 people sent its sons to Omaha Beach. Nineteen of them died in the first fifteen minutes of the as...