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D-Day 80: Staff Sergeant Irving Locker recounts D-Day

“If you don’t protect that beach, the men can’t come in, if the men can’t come in, you can’t win a war.”Staff Sergeant Irving Locker landed on Utah Beach with the 116th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion on D-Day.80 years later, he recounts what he experienced that historic day.