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Mark Patinkin: Two D-Day vets find other common ground in Portsmouth

 I’d heard that a 93-year-old D-Day vet named Helo “Frenchie” LaChapelle was visiting his native Newport from Florida and had put out word hoping to find buddies he’d trained with on the Navy base here in the early 1940s.He had no luck, but a local veterans’ group found someone else for him — Carl Petersen, of Portsmouth, another 93-year-old D-Day vet.And now, on Friday afternoon, I was there as the [...]

 

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