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Port Washington vet honored for bravery
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp
As a young U.S. Army engineer with the 1340th Battalion, James Salerno cleared land mines to make a path for the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
He was also part of a group of 250 soldiers sent to scale a cliff to remove enemy gun installations. Only 50 of them returned.
U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-Roslyn Heights) traveled to Salerno’s Port Washington home today to present...
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