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There to save, not to kill: U.S. survivor recalls D-Day bloodshed
Seventy-five years ago, 19-year-old Charles Shay leapt off a U.S. landing boat and into chest-deep water just off the Normandy coast. As he came ashore in the first wave of D-Day infantrymen, he had just one objective.
“I wanted to survive, and that was the thought going through many minds: survival,” Shay said.