
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 1, 1994                   TAG: 9405050184
SECTION: TRAVEL                    PAGE: F8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Barry Stavro Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: NORMANDY COAST, FRANCE                                 LENGTH: Short

50 YEARS AFTER D-DAY THEY COME IN PEACE

The early morning hours were cold and gray, with rain pelting down and the wind whipping at 30 mph. After an hour, I was soaked and needed shelter. I found it inside a 50-year-old Nazi concrete bunker. From 2-foot-wide turrent slits, where artillery guns once overlooked the beaches 100 feet below, I could see no more that a mile into the fog blanketing the English Channel.

The weather was miserable, and so it was perfect.

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by CNB