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Bob Giguere, who landed with American troops on Omaha Beach on D-Day, still has vivid recollections of taking part in the largest amphibious operation ever. (Roger Amsden/for The Laconia Daily Sun)
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ous landing in history. As a member of what has widely been called ‘’The Greatest Generation’’ Giguere says he’s never been ready to claim that what he did that day was heroic. ‘’The real heroes are those guys who didn’t come back. And there were plenty of them that I knew,’’ said Giguere. ‘’We were young and didn’t know what we were getting in to. We were doing what we were told to do,’’ he says, adding that there were ‘’20 guys on the ship that I went in on that didn’t make it.’’ Giguere says that he ‘s not sure why he was assigned to the beach battalion but thinks it may have had something to do with his ULTIMATE BIKERS GLASSES marksmanship score. GREAT GIFT FOR DAD ‘’I was pretty good with a rifle before I 527-1100 Belknap Mall see D-DAY page 8
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LACONIA — Bob Giguere was only 17 when he joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, so young that he needed his mother to sign a form giving her permission for him to enlist. He ended up being assigned to the 6th Naval Beach Battalion where he served as a rifleman on LCI-85, one of the first American crafts to land at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, taking part in the largest amphibi-
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LACONIA — There are more than 6,000 dogs registered in the city and neighboring towns of Belmont, Gilford and Meredith who could enjoy a park of their own if the city approves a proposal by Happy Tails Dog Park of Belmont will present to the Parks and Recreation Commission later this month. After seeking a suitable site for the past five years, Happy Tails, a nonprofit corporation, has prepared a plan to build the park on part of a 25-acre rectangular tract in the South End, between the end of Spruce Street and Growtth Road, which is owned by the city. The city purchased the land in 1976 with a Land, Water, Conservation grant from the federal government, which restricts the property to recreational uses. Happy Tails seeks to lease four or five acres at the see PARK page 10