WWII vet and Elton native, 103, honored in ceremony on D-Day’s 80th anniversary
Omaha Beach, Normandy, France (American Military News)
JUNE 10, 2024 RANDY GRIFFITH - THE TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT
When Elton native Clyde W. Gindlesperger arrived at Omaha Beach on June 18, 1944, 12 days after D-Day, “a lot of the dead had been cleaned up,” he said Thursday.
About 2,000 men died on Omaha Beach during the U.S. Army’s initial invasion of Normandy in Nazi Germany-occupied France, and there was plenty of death remaining in the area.
“There were German soldiers laying dead in the ditches, and dead cows everywhere,” Gindlesperger, 103, said during a program Thursday at Arbutus Park Retirement Community in Richland Township to honor him and mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.
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https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/06/wwii-vet-and-elton-native-103-honored-in-ceremony-on-d-days-80th-anniversary/
