D-Day veteran Charles Shay, who saved lives on Omaha Beach, dies at 101 in France
Decorated Native American veteran Charles Shay has died at age 101 in France
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Charles Norman Shay, the Native American veteran who tended to the wounded at Omaha Beach on D-Day
Charles Norman Shay was one of the 500 Native Americans who came ashore on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He was barely 20 years old and had grown up on an Indian reservation in the US state of Maine. Today, the former combat medic has settled…
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