“You’ll Never Know Unless You Were There What It Was Like” Local Historian Shares Stories from Two D-Day Veterans
HAGERSTOWN, MD — Thursday marked 80 years since D-Day, U.S. and allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on France’s northern coast on June 6, 1944 to battle and defeat the Nazis. Local Historian Philip Mayhue has talked to thousands of veterans, recording 50 or 60 of those conversations. On Thursday, he shared some of those…