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Milford man’s WWII service took him around world, into D-Day invasion

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Tom Maloney and his commanding officer were the first off their landing craft at Utah Beach during the 1944 D-Day invasion of Normandy. They dropped into 10 feet of water. Both were forced to ditch their packs and guns to reach the surface again. Able to climb back on the transport, Maloney’s enraged captain grabbed a gun off one of …