Black WWII Veterans Reunite in Normandy
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Listen: <b>Web Extra:</b> Hear an Extended Interview with WWII Veteran Bill Danbey and filmmaker Samuel LeBon Wooten.
Courtesy U.S. Army Military History Institute
Tankers of the Army 761st Medium Tank Battalion in the European Theater of Operations, August 1944.
Veteran Bill Danbey prepares for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in France. Joining him is photographer and filmmaker Samuel LeBon Wooten, and several other black veterans who were 19 to 35 years old on D-Day.
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