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Bradford Freeman, last "Band of Brothers" survivor has died...
Bradford Freeman, Last Surviving Member of WWII ‘Band of Brothers,’ Dies at 97
Around midnight on June 6, 1944, paratrooper Bradford C.
Freeman parachuted into Normandy, France, with an 18-pound mortar base plate strapped to his chest. Landing in a pasture filled with cows, he helped hide a fellow soldier who had broken his leg during the jump before meeting up with the rest of his mortar squad.
“We had to take the place and get the big guns so [the Germans] couldn’t interfere with the soldiers who were coming ashore,” Freeman, who died on Sunday at age 97, told Janis Allen, a curator at the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas, last year.
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Band of brothers cast member dies
We happened to be fortunate enough to do it right, I reckon. We secured the area and let the Army go through. They had come ashore and now they got on with their business.”
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After this successful D-Day mission