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Episode #736 of Hometown Heroes, airing June 3-6, 2022 commemorates the 78th anniversary of “D-Day” and the invasion of Normandy, which launched June 6, 1944. Thanks to the efforts of the Best Defense Foundation, 29 World War II vets are in Normandy right now to mark the occasion, including some who fought for that very soil in 1944.

 

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Among the group of veterans who enjoyed a chartered Delta Airlines flight from Atlanta to Normandy, receiving a heroes welcome upon landing, are some veterans who have shared many memorable experience on Hometown Heroes: Navy WAVE Dorothy Jones, who related her WWII story on episode #663; Army nurse Betty Rosevear, whose first husband was a bomber pilot killed in WWII, a theme throughout the memories she chronicled on episode #672; twice-wounded Army Air Corps bombardier Denny Thompson, who detailed a broad spectrum of experiences on episode #443; and Tom Rice, a D-Day paratrooper whose memories you’ll hear on this week’s episode.