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John Henry Brunea
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2010-01-11
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New York
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John Henry Brunea was born in 1920 in Batavia, New York. He had enlisted in the Army in 1942 and participated in the Allied landing on June 6, 1944. In 1945, he married a French woman, returned to the Uinted States, then returned to live in France, his adopted country. After having been in charge of the American cemetery of Montjoie-Saint-Martin, near Saint-James, John Brunea retired first to Pontaubault, near Avranches, then in the following years to Avranches. John was the only American WWII veteran to live in Lower Normandy. He died Monday evening of January 12, 2010 in the Avranches hospital. Source of information: https://www.ouest-france.fr