Ex-Paratrooper Recalls D-Day Crossfire

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Hobbled by a broken leg, Joseph Bruno stumbled for cover in a French cow pasture, caught between enemy fire coming from one side and friendly fire from another.

His regiment had parachuted into position in the dead of night and was caught in a gunfight without any clearly drawn battle lines, he said.

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Ex-Paratrooper Recalls D-Day Crossfire

"We were firing at anything we saw," said Bruno, 81, of Bloomfield, a lifelong Pittsburgher who was 19 on D-Day, June 6, 1944, when ...

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