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A bracelet of a D-Day hero found 78 years later

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:47 pm
by terminator
His nickname, Bull, but also his initials appear on the front door: WLR which means Wolverton Lee Robert. With this jewel, a part of history reappears. That of Colonel Wolverton, an American paratrooper killed on the night of June 6, 1944. When he had parachuted into Saint-Côme-du-Mont, the G.I. had been trapped in the branches of a tree and had been killed by the Germans, even before touching Norman soil.
78 years later, his bullet-pierced chain was found in a field in Saint-Côme-du-Mont, last April.

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lee_Wolverton

Re: A bracelet of a D-Day hero found 78 years later

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 3:46 pm
by bru888
Wow, the symbolism of the bullet shredding the name plate. Bless him.