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NORMANDY, France — Kenneth “K.B.” Smith is a Lincoln High alum who attended LHS from 1940-1942. Smith dropped out of school following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 to join the Navy and in 1944 he was a Petty Officer on the USS Satterlee, a ship that provided gun support to the troops that stormed Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Today, Smith was honored alongside other WWII veterans at the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. The ceremony was attended by heads of state including US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron. Smith returned to LHS in 1946 to get what he called his “adult diploma.”
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LHS Students visiting France during the 80th anniversary of D-Day pay tribute to fallen Lincoln soldier, Staff Sargent Paul Garfield Cosandier, LHS class of 1943, who was lost in action while serving in France. Cosandier and three others lost their lives near Tours, France on June 24, 1944. Cosandier is burried in the Normandy American Cemetery, in France.