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==History== ===World War II=== [[File:A platoon of Negro troops surrounds a farm house in a town in France, as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper... - NARA - 531188.jpg|thumb|left|Black soldiers tracking a sniper Omaha Beachhead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France. 10 June 1944]] [[File:Cimetière provisoire à Vierville.jpg|thumbnail|left|Honor guard with the flag and a bugler during a mass at the site of the first temporary cemetery in Vierville, June 10, 1944.]] On 6 June 1944 ([[Normandy landings|D-Day]]), the U.S. Army's 116th Infantry Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division, along with the 5th Ranger Battalion, and A, B, and C Companies of the 2nd Ranger Battalion landed on Dog Green, Dog White, Dog Red, and Easy Green sectors of [[Omaha Beach]], below Vierville-sur-Mer, starting at 6.30 am.
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