Photo: CAFB presents flag to Bradford Freeman
Members of Columbus Air Force Base conduct a ceremony for a new U.S. flag outside Army veteran Bradford Freeman’s home on Thursday in Caledonia. Freeman enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1942 assigned to the E Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division. He fought in the Second World War and was present during D-Day.
‘A sacred place’: Caledonia WWII veteran returns to France 75 years after D-Day
At the 75th anniversary celebration of the D-Day landings in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, the world watched as 170 World War II veterans were honored by world leaders at a ceremony on the edge of Omaha Beach.
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Bradford Freeman lives in Caledonia, but 74 years ago he and the other members of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 101st Airborne Division were part of an operation along the Rhine River to rescue about 300 British soldiers and prisoners of war that had escaped being cut off by Germans at the Arnhem bridge — the “bridge too far” of the movie by that name.
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It took a while for Bradford Freeman to become famous.