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The War
Ray Leopold's Front-Line Meal: Chocolate Roast Beef
With their chow truck blown up, soldiers lined up at food cans spaced 40 to 50 feet apart, so a single shell couldn't kill a whole group. Waterbury medic Ray Leopold recalls every step of the meal: toast, magnificent roast beef, gravy, peas and carrots, and then a scoop of chocolate pudding over all of it.
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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
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By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
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On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
