World War II Veterans

Charles Norman Shay, a Penobscot tribal elder and World War II medic who as a teen helped rescue wounded on D‑Day, died at 101 at his home in Thue et Mue, France, near Omaha Beach, his death announced by a group supporting the Charles N. Shay Indian Memorial. He was one of roughly 175 Native Americans among about 34,000 Allied troops who landed on Omaha Beach, later recounted his wartime rescues in a 2010 Library of Congress interview, and in 1945 was turned away from voting in Maine — where Native Americans did not gain full suffrage until 1954.