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FILE -This April 17, 2014 file photo shows Ray Lambert, a combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. Ray Lambert, the Army medic who survived multiple wounds on D-Day and was saluted by a president on the World War II battle's 75th anniversary, died on Friday, April 9, 2021. He was 100. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

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D-Day survivor Ray Lambert looks out over Omaha Beach in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on Wednesday, June 5, 2019. The North Carolina man was wounded four times on the beach during the Normandy invasion 75 years ago. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

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