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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.
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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.
The plan by Ibarra Perez, whose
group claims to have 5,000 members,
follows the killing of an undocu
mented immigrant by a border patrol
agent two weeks ago in Brownsville,
discovery of a mentally disabled U.S.
resident's body in the Rio Grande af
ter his deportation, threats by vigi
lantes and other events.
saying that they aregoingtoki!
migrants, then why can't we
agents)?" he told The
Monitor, adding the UnitedSiai
responsible for forcing his
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the U.S. government. They are
voking this conflict."
American law officers say
sponse is possible yet because:
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ficials had not heard about
Perez's intention to offer theixi
Border patrol supervisory
Ramiro De Anda said.
He said narcotics trafficker
made similar threats in the pi
the El Paso area.
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