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Notable People On Utah Beach

  • Philip Hart – U.S. senator
  • Elliot Richardson – Nixon-era politician, medical officer in the 4th wave ashore
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. – 4th ID general, landed in the 1st wave
  • J. D. Salinger – U.S. author
  • James Van Fleet – 4th ID colonel
  • Hugh Nibley – Celebrated Mormon scholar
  • Stu Clarkson – Chicago Bears football player
  • Walter Ohmsen – German commanding officer of the Crisbecq Battery

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