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Bob Darino | 294th Engineer Combat Battalion, VII Corps, 1st Army - Army

3:42   |   New Yorker Bob Darino was drafted in 1943 and trained as a combat engineer. Shipped out to England to prepare for the Normandy invasion, the eighteen year old got "scared as Hell" when he was briefed on the German defenses.

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