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The oversight is being rectified for the dozens of corpsmen and doctors in the 6th Naval Beach Battalion who hit Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, an hour after the first wave landed. On Wednesday ...

At Bradford, "we were assigned to an experimental outfit called a Naval Beach Battalion. We were issued ... We headed out on the 6th aboard anything that would float, even fishing boats from ...

Catallo was a corpsman in the 6th Naval Beach Battalion when it landed an hour after the first wave hit the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The unit’s doctors and other medical personnel ...

Davey said Parker was a member of the 6th Naval Beach Battalion. Parker’s obituary from McCommons Funeral Home says he treated the wounded, including Allied and German troops, for 21 days on the ...

He was the first and, at 23, the youngest beachmaster to reach the sands of Omaha, said Ken Davey, the historian of Mr. Vaghi’s 6th Naval Beach Battalion. Mr. Vaghi turned 24 the day before he ...