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Honoring an army medic who was in the first wave at Omaha

Sergeant Ray Lambert, the army medic in the first wave that assaulted Omaha beach on D-Day, died this past Friday night, at age 100. Two years ago on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, he spoke with our Malcolm Brabant beside the concrete block where he saved many lives that fateful day.

Honoring an army medic who was in the first wave at Omaha

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