US EditionD-Day veteran Charles Shay, who saved lives on Omaha Beach, dies at 101 in France
Charles Shay, a Penobscot Nation member, was awarded the Silver Star and France's Legion of Honor for saving lives on Omaha Beach during D-Day, where 4,414 Allied troops died.
- On Wednesday, Charles Norman Shay, a Penobscot Nation member and decorated World War II medic, died at his home in Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse, Normandy, France; he was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and saved wounded soldiers.
- On June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 troops from Britain, the U.S., Canada and other nations landed on Normandy's beaches, causing 4,414 Allied deaths, including 2,501 Americans.
- Shay earned the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea to rescue wounded soldiers, received France's Legion of Honor, led sage-burning ceremonies, and was captured in March 1945 before liberation.
- The Charles Shay Memorial group posted on Facebook that they are deeply saddened, and Maine officials offered condolences, with U.S. Sen. Angus King praising Shay as `a world-class individual`.
- In recent years, Shay seized commemorations to share his testimony and a message of peace, handed remembrance duties to Julia Kelly, a Gulf War veteran from the Crow tribe, and inspired Old Town High School students.
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On Wednesday, 3 December, a hero of the 1944 landing disappeared. Charles Norman Shay died at the age of 101. Engaged very young in the American army, he participated in the liberation of Europe. (Topics of society).
Wars do not solve problems - Charles Norman Shay insisted. Now the last U.S. resident and veteran of the Normandy landing died.
American veteran Charles Shay has died in France at the age of 101. Shay was a member of the Penobscot indigenous people. In his old age, he campaigned for recognition of the contribution of indigenous peoples to the liberation of Western Europe during World War II. Shay himself received several awards for his participation in the Normandy invasion, including France's highest decoration. During the landings on the French coast in 1944, the then …
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