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Page 2 STATE Tuesday, June THE BATTALION Lpsdav. June 6, 2( D-Day excavation led by A&M team COLLEGE STATION (AP) — The gnarled, rusted remains of barbed wire are still perched on some of the jagged rocks at Point-du-EIoc in Normandy, France, the site of the largest air, land and sea invasion ever undertaken. It is a frightening reminder of the scope and ferocity of the bloodshed that occurred on the beaches of France during Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944, 'more commonly known as the D- Day invasion, which foreshadowed the end of WWII. But it is the possibility of what lies underwater there that intrigues re searchers like Brett Phaneuf, who last week began surveying the ocean floor off Normandy, hoping to locate wreck age and equipment from the invasion fleet that have remained lost. Phaneuf is director of Project Nep tune 2K, which is affiliated with Texas A&M University-based Institute for Nautical Archaeology. Their work to detail what happened to the ships and 'People shouldn’t be removing things and desecrating a war site.' — Brett Phaneuf director of Project Neptune 2K planes that were lost in the invasion is already paying off. Phaneuf and his team discovered the perfectly preserved vestige of a landing ship in the waters off of Utah Beach on Monday. "The ship is almost completely in tact," Phaneuf said in a telephone in terview from a research vessel sailing the waters of Utah and Omaha beach es. "It's such a beautiful sight. You can even see the captain's deck. It re minds you that the price for freedom was paid here." Before Monday's find, institute offi cials were discouraged by reports that people had been periodically dynamit ing the battle's underwater remains to steal potentially valuable materials. "That's disconcerting because this area is just as hallowed as a veteran's cemetery," Phaneuf said. "People shouldn't be removing things and des ecrating a war site." Three years ago, Phaneuf was on another archaeological study in France and became interested in the naval his tory of the D-Day invasion after visit ing memorial sites in Normandy. When Phaneuf returned to Ameri ca he began laying the groundwork for the project. After extensively re searching naval reports and accounts of the battle, he eventually lined up the support of the institute and the Naval Historical Center's Underwater Archaeology Branch, a U.S. Navy of fice that works to preserve ship and aircraft wrecks. Activist offers bounj McALLEN (AP) — Angered by If there are American ( U.S. treatment of Mexican immigrants, an activist in Reynosa, Mexico says he will offer $10,000 to anyone who kills a Border Patrol agent and law officers are taking his threat seriously. Carlos Ibarra Perez, president of the Citizens Defense Committee, said he will offer the bounty at a news conference Monday in front of Reynosa's City Hall. 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