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D-Day Remembered: Saving Sergeant Niland

By Jacek Wysocki - April 17, 2019

We mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion with a look at some of Tonawanda’s real-life soldiers and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan.”

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