Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Coronado Native Tom Rice Remembers D-Day

Tom Rice always jumped first.

On June 6, 1944, the Coronado native sat on the floor of a C-47 cargo plane with 17 other U.S. Army paratroopers, flying across the English Channel in the early hours of the largest air, sea and land invasion in history. It was D-Day.

Read the entire UT article here.



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