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‘Freedoms are never free’: A Jewish American soldier buried with Nazis finally laid to rest with US troops
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Eighty years after being wounded and dying in the Battle of Cherbourg, U.S. 1st Lieutenant Nathan Baskind was laid to rest with his comrades in the Normandy American Cemetery in France.The Jewish American officer from Pittsburgh, Pa., was considered missing for decades, with his family not knowing what happened to him after he came ashore on Utah Beach on D-Day with the 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion.In the heat of the Battle of Cherbourg on June 23, 1944, Baskind was lost. German records later
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