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In this photo taken on Thursday May 8, 2014, Bernard Dargols poses during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in La Garenne-Colombes, outside Paris. Dargols waded onto Omaha Beach in June 1944 as an American soldier to help liberate France from Nazis who persecuted his Jewish family. At 98, Dargols died last week. An ever-smaller number of D-Day veterans will take part in June 6, 2019 ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of history's largest amphibian invasion. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

One by one, D-Day memories fade as war’s witnesses die

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

In this photo dated Thursday May 8, 2014, Bernard Dargols poses during an interview with the Associated Press at his home in La Garenne-Colombes, outside Paris, France. When he left Paris at age 18, the plan was to go to New York for a year and learn his father’s sewing machine trade. Six years later, Bernard Dargols found himself crossing the Channel in a U.S. Army uniform, sloshing ashore on Omaha Beach to a homeland that had persecuted his Jewish family. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Frenchman joined US D-Day forces to free homeland

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press