As the wave of troops sailed toward Omaha Beach in the early morning of June 6, 1944, Frank DeVita could hear the German machine gun fire striking the outside of his landing craft. His job was to lower the ramp when the craft got to the beach and then raise it after the American troops clamored out.
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