June 1, 2016
Alexandria resident Bill McNamara, standing second from left, and his Stars and Stripes team on Omaha Beach in Normandy three days after the D-Day invasion in June 1944.
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It was 80 years ago when Bill McNamara joined the National Guard in 1936. He was just 15 years old then and by the time he was 23, he was the youngest major in Europe, working for the Stars and Stripes newspaper and leading a six-man detachment across Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944.
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