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Sub-Lieutenant George "Jimmy" Green, 551 Flotilla, has died.
We have just learned that Jimmy Green has died. Sub-Lieutenant George Green carried the men of the A company, 116th Regiment, 29th Division onto Dog Green, Omaha Beach on landing craft in the very first minutes of the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. Read more...
[Posted: 2016-05-14 09:33:04]
Virginia Beach - Cary Lee Jarvis, 94, of Virginia Beach, died April 28, 2016
He was a staff sergeant when he landed D-Day, first wave, on Omaha beach, a member of the C-Battery of the 111th Artillery Battalion, 29th Division.  Read more...
[Posted: 2016-05-03 19:10:18]
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WALL - IN MEMORY OF: [See all Messages]
OGDEN HOWARD
29TH INFANTRY DIVISION
My name is Sarah Moyers and Howard Ogden was my great uncle.(my papaw, Smith Osmar Ogden was his brother)I only wish that I knew him. My mamaw kept many of his letters that he wrote to her. It was so nice to know that someone remembers him. Rest in Peace Howard.
Honored by Joshua Moyers
[Posted: 2017-03-29 01:41:13]
KILLEN VINCENT M
2ND INFANTRY DIVISION
My dad was certain that was him in the photo so was my mom who knew him the most. He landed on june 7th omaha beach. He was later attached to the 28th(bloody bucket) and captured in Honsfeld at the buldge. Escaped months later
Honored by rich lang
[Posted: 2017-02-17 21:26:34]
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  CROWEY JOHN W was on OMAHA BEACH AREA  
29TH INFANTRY DIVISION
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS

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Let us remember those young soldiers who changed the course of history with their sacrifice. Let us commit ourselves to remembering their sacrifice by cherishing the freedom they bought for all generations that follow. Honored by Laurent Lefebvre [April 21, 2017]
To read 29th Infantry Division documents (after action report, diary, journal,...)
This company was to land in six boats at H+40. The landing was generally three hundred yards to left of their objectives. The boat of Lieutenant "Kelly" Athanaskos, however, landed in the area of the...(Group Critique Notes, 29th Division, 116th Regiment, 1st Bn., D Co.)