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Jim “Pee Wee” Martin remembers vividly where he was 78 years ago today. He can’t forget when he was floating to the ground from a plane in Nazi-occupied France facing heavy fire from the Nazis below. It was D-Day, just after midnight on June 6, 1944, when he made his first combat jump and landed…
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