Mass.) Morse Institute Library (Natick

Arthur Fishtine trained at the Desert Training Center in California and Camp Kilmer, NJ and was then sent to England where his 79th Infantry Division landed in Normandy following D-Day. As a member of an artillery group advancing against the Nazi army, Private Fishtine withstood enemy attacks from the ground and from Luftwaffe bombs. Moving through the hedgerows of France, they never knew if the enemy was only a few feet away. Crossing the Seine and...