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Remembering D-Day
Date: 6/5/2009 Album ID: 771401
Photos by Terry Barner
Cuz Windham of Panama City was one of thousands of U.S. Army paratroopers who jumped into France in the early morning of June 6, 1944, to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany during World War II.
Sixty-five years ago today, Cuz Windham of Panama City parachuted into German-occupied France during the D-Day invasion. Windham, 87, holds a photograph of himself and another U.S. Army paratrooper taken during training.(TERRY BARNER | The News Herald)
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WIndham is shown during U.S. Army paratrooper training as a gun mechanic on a 75mm pack howitzer. Register parachuted into France at 2:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, before assembling the nine pieces of the parachute-dropped howitzer and using it on the Germans in Normandy. (Courtesy of Cuz Windham)
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WIndham is shown during U.S. Army paratrooper training as a gun mechanic on a 75mm pack howitzer. Register parachuted into France at 2:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, before assembling the nine pieces of the parachute-dropped howitzer and using it on the Germans in Normandy.
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Windham and other paratroopers with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division pose in front of the aircraft they often jumped from, a C-47. Windham is shown standing, fifth from left.
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WIndham is shown during U.S. Army paratrooper training as a gun mechanic on a 75mm pack howitzer. Register parachuted into France at 2:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, before assembling the nine pieces of the parachute-dropped howitzer and using it on the Germans in Normandy.
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Windham's U.S. Army discharge papers.
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D-Day veteran Cuz Windham of Panama City, right, talks with Charles Nichols while looking over Windham's Army discharge papers in Nichols' Panama City home on Friday, May 15, 2009. (TERRY BARNER | The News Herald)
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Supreme Allied Commander, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, addresses paratroopers before D-Day. (Courtesy of www.ddaymuseum.org)
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Paratroopers pack into a C-47 before a jump.(Courtesy of www.ddaymuseum.org)
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Normandy was the second combat mass parachute jump in U.S. Army history after the invasion of Sicily in Italy in 1943. (Courtesy of www.ddaymuseum.org)
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Troops leave an LST on the beach.(Courtesy of www.ddaymuseum.org)
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Photojournalist Robert Capa's famous image from the D-Day invasion. When the film from the assignment was rushed back to England for developing, a darkroom technician eagerly awaiting to see the dried negatives accidentally used too much heat to dry them and melted the negatives and ruined much of Capa's images from the attack.
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