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D-Day Veteran Smokey Holcomb Gives First Person Account of Landings on Omaha Beach

Posted on May 22, 2016 by

Ajay Posted in Author interviews, Military, Photo gallery, United States war ships — 2 Comments ↓

The following is an interview I conducted with Smokey Holcomb, a Navy veteran who witnessed the D-Day invasion. By Ken RossignolTHE CHESAPEAKE TODAYLEXINGTON PARK — Rastus “Smokey” Holcomb served on the USS Arkansas and participated in 13 convoys across…

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