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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 2, 2014 photo, D-Day survivor Ray Lambert holds a piece of "shale" from Omaha Beach at his home Seven lakes, N.C. Lambert, a combat medic, was with the 1st Infantry Division, which accounted for more than half of the 32,000-strong U.S. force that landed on Omaha Beach. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, World War II veteran Ray Lambert holds the "Big Red One" presented to him for excellence by Infantry Division Commander Maj. Gen. Kenneth W. Hunzeker in Seven Lakes, N.C. Of the more than 16,000 members of the "Big Red One" who staggered out of the landing craft, 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. Today, only Lambert and a couple dozen others are known to remain. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - This April 2, 2014, photo shows a 16th Infantry Regiment patch with the Latin motto "Always Prepared" that decorates Ray Lambert's blazer at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. Of the 31 men in the landing craft he rode onto Omaha Beach on D-Day, only seven made it ashore, and four of those, included Lambert, were wounded. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, Ray Lambert, a combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, stands for a photo at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. "You can hear the boats hitting the waves, and you can hear guys calling for a medic on those waves," said Lambert when talking about the invasion. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, Ray Lambert, a combat veteran of the D-Day invasion is reflected in a framed collection of his military medals and decorations at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. Despite excruciating pain Lambert said he managed to drag himself and a wounded soldier ashore during the invasion. Soon afterward, he passed out. He said that he awoke some time later on a landing craft, heading out to sea. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, Ray Lambert, a 1st Infantry Division combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, holds a copy of an old photograph of himself in uniform at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. Lambert said during the invasion he waded into the water to help a man struggling in the surf. Just as he seized the man with his good arm, a landing craft lowered its ramp onto Lambert's back. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, in Seven Lakes, N.C., Ray Lambert, a 1st Infantry Division combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, holds a pipe given to him by a German pilot that Lambert attempted to rescue from a burning plane just before the pilot died. Lambert said that he was applying tourniquets and doling out morphine during the invasion when something, a bullet or piece of shrapnel, he is not sure which, passed through his right arm, just above the elbow. He continued to work after his arm went numb. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 2, 2014 photo, an American flag waves in the breeze as former Army medic Ray Lambert walks to the dock behind his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. The D-Day survivor said he can still hear the cries of wounded men he was unable to save. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - This April 17, 2014 photo shows mementoes collected by Ray Lambert, a World War II combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, that are kept in a glass case in Lambert's home in Seven Lakes, N.C. The Jeep carrying Lambert's medical chests and the rest of his gear had sunk to the bottom of the Channel during the D-Day invasion. Working with what he was carrying, he said that he began sorting the floating wounded from the dead and dragging them ashore. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
