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Topic Title: A Daytona Beach connection to the Normandy invasion
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Created On: 06/24/2012 08:04 PM
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06/24/2012 08:04 PM
ww Posts: 9682 Joined: 08/17/2007	A Daily Mail story from 2009. Two British officers swam 2 miles to the Normandy invasion beaches on New Year's night 1944 to collect sand and peat samples. The sampling device had been designed for testing the sand at Daytona ahead of an attempt to do a world land speed record.
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06/25/2012 07:56 AM
carcar79 Posts: 791 Joined: 01/24/2010	Terrific! ------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- . http://www.flickr.com/photos/42342058@N05/
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06/25/2012 04:28 PM
ww Posts: 9682 Joined: 08/17/2007	I googled "Major Logan Scott Bowden" and got a one-page account in D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose. Also, a good story from The News in Portsmouth 2010. COPP Heroes website. An image search indicates the Daily Mail's photo is bogus.
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