Meet Socrates G. Cretekos, nicknamed "Odg." It's a miracle this Greek-American from Tarpon Springs, Florida, lived to share his story, 77 years after landing at Normandy on D-Day 1944. If you saw "Saving Private Ryan," you got a hint of what it was like to hit that beach in a hail of enemy gunfire. Odg tells it as an eye witness who led and lost men through the landing, then helped free Paris, rescued skeleton-like prisoners at Dachau, and suffered two wounds along the way (that's him in the photo receiving his second Purple Heart medal). Odg may not look like a history-making hero, but he's the kind of guy the book "The Greatest Generation" was written about.
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