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    D-Day

    Here is a great bio of hard-throwing pitcher Elmer Wright, a Browns farmhand, who was killed on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day.

    http://www.baseballsgreatestsacrific...ght_elmer.html
    Last edited by dave_heller; 06-06-2012 at 09:56 AM.

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    Minor Leauger Joe Pinder was also killed at Normandy. In January of 1945 he was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions on June 6, 1944.

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