Edward D. Shames, an American war hero who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, died at home on Friday at the age of 99. Shames was the last living member of the elite US Army soldiers and paratroopers regiment known as the Easy Company. A book about this was published in 1992 and a miniseries on HBO in 2001 under the title ‘Band of Brothers’.
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