http://www.omaha.com/article/20110402/NEWS01/704039918/0#honor-flight-veteran-beveridge-diesPublished Saturday April 2, 2011
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http://www.omaha.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=OW&Date=20110402&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=704039918&Ref=AR&maxw=490&maxh=275James R. Beverides with his World War II medals.
James R. Beveridge survived two of the most dramatic and bloody European campaigns of World War II.
An Omaha native, Beveridge landed on the coastline of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He was a technician 5th grade in the Army’s 225th Automatic Weapons Battalion.
He also fought in the Battle of the Bulge, the Nazis’ final effort to turn the tide of the war in the winter of 1944-45. That battle, launched in Belgium, cost American forces tens of thousands of casualties.
Beveridge, 88, died Friday after a long illness, family members said. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Mary, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Beveridge said this a few years ago about his war experience:
“I’ve never been so cold in all my life than I was in the Battle of the Bulge. I was firing a machine gun, and I got hit in the hand. My hand was laid open, but it wouldn’t bleed because it was so cold. I put the skin back over it, put on antiseptic powder that we had in our first-aid kit, and I wrapped it up and kept going.”
He received the Purple Heart and five battle stars for his service.
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