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You can learn about the D-Day invasion and the related Battle of Normandy in World War II by reading books, visiting websites and watching documentaries.

But to hear an interesting firsthand account of what took place after Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy and launched a key battle that expedited the downfall of Nazi Germany, sit down and talk with Fred Pearson of Madison Township. Pearson served in a U.S. Army unit that arrived on the coastline of Normandy, in northern France, six days after Allied forces conducted the initial D-Day invasion . ...

An Air Force veteran of the Cold War has become a keeper of another story from the air battles of World War II.

Richard M. Schroeder of Avon served in the U.S. Air Force from 1956 to 1961. He worked on guided missile technology built into the weapons the United States would keep pointed at Russia as tensions between the nations rose after WWII. Schroeder also was in World War

II — not as a soldier or airman, but as an American boy trapped with his parents and siblings in Germany . ...

Read their stories and others in our special Salute to Service magazine March 30.

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