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R.I. teenagers survived hell on Earth in D-Day invasion
There aren’t many of them left, and here were two of the last — American soldiers who landed on D-Day. Seventy-five years ago. Ernie Corvese is 93 and Richard Fazzio 94, both among the first to come ashore into German fire on June 6, 1944. They are elderly now, but giants, too — men who stopped tyranny, pushed it back across Europe and killed it. I met them in Wakefield, Rhode Island, in a new museum called the Global Education Center, part of the World War II Foundation created by documentarian Tim Gray, who has put both Corvese and Fazzio in D-Day movies. >Video, click to read< Thank you, Gentlemen, and the Greatest Generation. 20:02
