As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a decorated veteran, he was forbidden to vote as a Native American.
PARIS — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay died ...
Omaha Beach and the 1st Infantry Division on D-Day. Saving Private Ryan depicts the fight that the US 29th Infantry Division along with the Rangers endured on the beach in the Dog Green Sector towards ...