80 years since the Normandy landings|American Robert Persichitti died in a hospital in Germany.
Normandy About 180 World War II veterans participated in the 80th anniversary celebrations of the landing on Thursday in France. All of them are at least close to a hundred years old.
“You saved the world”, the President of the United States Joe Biden81, said as he leaned into one of the veterans, according to AFP.
However, one of these greatest guests of honor was left along the way. American Robert Persichitti, 102, died last week before arriving in France. He had to be flown to a hospital from a ship traveling along the coast of Europe and died in a hospital in Germany.
The incident is reported by the news agency AFP and the news channel, among others CNN.
“Doctor was with him. He was not alone and it was nice for him to be,” Persichitti’s friend and traveling companion Al DeCarlo told to WHAM local channel.
“The doctor put his favorite singer on his phone Frank Sinatraand he departed from us peacefully.”
Persichitti did not take part in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, but instead served as a radioman on the command ship USS Eldorado in the Pacific, including Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Guam.
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