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Actor Joe
Mantegna introduces World
War II hero and Academy
Award nominee Charles
Durning at the 2008 National
Memorial Day Concert on the
lawn of the U.S. Capitol,
Washington D.C., May 25,
2008. Durning earned a
Silver Star and three Purple
Heart medals during World
War II. Serving as an
rifleman, Durning was one of
the first troops to land on
Omaha Beach during the D-Day
Allied invasion of Europe.
He was later captured by
Germans during the Battle of
the Bulge, but he managed to
escape.
Defense Dept.
photo by
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st
Class Chad J. McNeeley |
