Posted on Jun 1, 2024
She was 14 when a U.S. pilot was shot down near her home in France. 80 years later, she’s keeping...
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It’s almost 80-years on, but Marie Bastien said the memory of the American fighter plane being shot down near her village in northern France remains as vivid as ever.
“I still see it, as if it was yesterday,” Bastien, 94, told NBC News in French last week before widespread celebrations across France on June 6 for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings when more than 150,000 American, British and Canadian forces charged the beaches of Normandy to liberate the Nazi-occupied country from fascism.
“I still see it, as if it was yesterday,” Bastien, 94, told NBC News in French last week before widespread celebrations across France on June 6 for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings when more than 150,000 American, British and Canadian forces charged the beaches of Normandy to liberate the Nazi-occupied country from fascism.
She was 14 when a U.S. pilot was shot down near her home in France. 80 years later, she’s keeping...
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SFC Dr. Jesus Garcia-Arce, Psy.D - DAMN! LOL! I Know the Resemblance is "Striking" the Pictures May have been Taken when they were My Age Currently! My Uncle Bill and Uncle Bob, My Fathers Older Brothers!
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