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    TWIN SAILORS KILLED IN 1944 REUNITED

    Oct 02, 2018 2 minutes
    REPORTED AND WRITTEN BY PAUL WISEMAN

    A CURIOUS TEENAGER has helped bring together fallen American twins seven decades after they died off the Normandy coast.

    Julius “Henry” Pieper was buried next to his brother, Ludwig “Louie” Pieper, in the Normandy American Cemetery on

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