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Walpole patriot Armand DuBois reminisces

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By Linda Thomas Hometown Weekly Correspondent PFC Armand DuBois, a 25-year-old 60mm mortar gunner, found himself lying on a bunk in an underground cell in an old French prison in August 1944, contemplating his shattered right arm. The pain felt like he had been slammed with a baseball bat. D-Day was only a couple months earlier,...
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