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YAKIMA, Wash. -- In the heavy fighting in France during World War II, 12 men serving around Rollo Worden would die or be badly injured in a day.
Six soldiers would hurriedly replace them; so green that they didn't know how to dig a foxhole, three or four would quickly be killed by the next morning, Worden told the Yakima Herald-Republic.
Such ongoing losses are the reality of war, and Worden remembers it all too well on the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day assault on German-occupied France in 1944.
"How I made it through I have no idea. There was no way I could have," Worden said in an interview at his Terrace Heights home.
"It really takes a toll on the mind."
Six soldiers would hurriedly replace them; so green that they didn't know how to dig a foxhole, three or four would quickly be killed by the next morning, Worden told the Yakima Herald-Republic.
Such ongoing losses are the reality of war, and Worden remembers it all too well on the 72nd anniversary of the D-Day assault on German-occupied France in 1944.
"How I made it through I have no idea. There was no way I could have," Worden said in an interview at his Terrace Heights home.
"It really takes a toll on the mind."
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