D-Day Invasion
70th Anniversary
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| Newsday, June 6,1944
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June 6, 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day. On this date in 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded including Freeporter, Robert H. Bergmann.
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| 1939 Freeport High School Yearbook |
Bergmann enlisted on May 13, 1942 and served as a medic with the Army's 116th Infantry Division. According to reports, he died while attending to the wounded. Bergmann was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. He was 25 years old at the time of his death.
Bergmann was originally interred at St. Laurent, France. In 1947, his remains were buried at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale.
