Standing at the rail of his tugboat, U.S. Navy radio man Peter Orlando could hear the deadly clatter of machine guns and see the black smoke billowing from explosions a thousand yards away on Omaha Beach. Fourteen-inch artillery shells screamed over his head, fired from battleships at German targets above the Normandy coast.
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