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The American Wall.

The 62ft (19m) "D-Day Wall" on Western Esplanade in Southampton has more than 70 names etched by soldiers waiting to embark for Normandy after D-Day.

The soldiers are believed to have belonged to the 99th and 106th Infantry Divisions and were among the two million Americans who transited through Southampton to mainland Europe.

Two of the men named - Robert Golden and William Knight - were found to have been captured and spent the remainder of the war as POWs.


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William Paul Urban...came from Chicago and reached the rank of sergeant before he was killed in action aged 29 in March 1945.

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