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3 weeks ago | wisconsinexaminer.com | Tim Lambert

by Tim Lambert, Wisconsin Examiner June 6, 2025 Shaun Nadolny is finally making the trip from Wisconsin to visit his great-uncle’s grave in the Brittany American Cemetery in France. Tradition holds that for visiting family members, staff will place moistened sand on the engraving on the marker for Jerome Nadolny, who was killed in the fierce fighting around Gathemo, a small village in Normandy, using a wet sponge.

3 weeks ago | apg-wi.com | Tim Lambert

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3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Tim Lambert

A soldier with the 28th Division stands amid the ruins of Gathemo, France, in August 1944. (Screenshot from National Archives film)A soldier with the 28th Division stands amid the ruins of Gathemo, France, in August 1944. (Screenshot from National Archives film)Shaun Nadolny is finally making the trip from Wisconsin to visit his great-uncle’s grave in the Brittany American Cemetery in France.

3 weeks ago | wisconsinexaminer.com | Tim Lambert

The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one town among hundreds on a map that needed to be taken from the occupying Germans in the slow, methodical, grinding Battle of Normandy that began on D-Day: June 6, 1944. That’s when the Allies landed soldiers on five beaches and airborne troops dropped behind enemy lines as part of the war to wrest Europe from Nazi Germany.

3 weeks ago | apg-wi.com | Tim Lambert

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