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David Ashe

“Irish Dave” and the Yanks
Who Liberated Normandy

By Jerri Donohue, Contributor
June / July 2015

May 14, 2015 by 1 Comment

Distant View thru trees

Belfast native David Ashe retired to Normandy, France, and became a champion for visiting GIs who had liberated his adopted homeland during World War II. In September 2011, Guy Whidden, a World War II veteran from Frederick, Maryland, peeled off his 101st Airborne Division jump jacket in the men’s room of the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville, France. Whidden next … [Read more...] about “Irish Dave” and the Yanks
Who Liberated Normandy

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