He fought at Omaha Beach during WWII and worked as a signal maintenance and property officer at Fort Douglas, Utah, retiring in 1960.
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Serving in the U.S. Naval Amphibious forces during WWII he participated in the Invasion of Omaha Beach, Normandy France, on his 20th birthday, June 6, 1944.
Three D-Day veterans from the Norfolk area accompanied Jim to several historic World War II sites, including Weymouth, England, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, the Dachau concentration camp, and Margraten in the Netherlands, site of the largest American cemetery in Europe.
Beginning in 1945, the Americans transferred two-thirds of their fallen from this site back to the United States while the remainder were reinterred at the new permanent American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks the Omaha Beach landing site.
The game seeks to faithfully recreate battles from the real Normandy invasion, including Omaha beach, Utah beach, Sword Beach, Colleville, Sainte-Mère-Église, Caen, Pegasus Bridge, and Vierville.
Following the Normandy landings at Omaha Beach, an American squad frees a group of French hostages but takes several casualties in an assault in Vierville-sur-Mer.
The invasion was already eight hours old when she began approaching Omaha Beach, near Vierville.
From Omaha Beach MacGillivary would be involved in numerous battles throughout France, before reaching Wœlfling during the Battle of the Bulge.
The opening scene of the movie Saving Private Ryan depicts the conditions under which Canham's regiment landed on the Dog Green sector of Omaha Beach along with one company of Army Rangers.
The division's most famous combat operations were the Omaha Beach landings of June 6, 1944 (his 49th birthday), D-Day and the taking of the French crossroads town of Saint-Lô in July 1944.
Scheduled to land at Fox Green sector of Omaha Beach at H+90 after firing artillery from 8000 yards off Colleville-sur-Mer in support of the 16th Regimental Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division prior to H hour.