Remembering Normandy
D-Day veteran Vern Ollar muses over the pitons and snap-ring he used to make the 900-foot final climb while training to land on Omaha Beach. Since revisiting Normandy on the 70th Anniversary, he is able to tell about that day and the months that followed.
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Vern Ollar’s parents lived in Rock Island, Ill., but since on July 26, 1921, the town had no…
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