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Wilbur D Breshears 1924 - 2002

Wilbur D Breshears of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, NC was born on December 15, 1924, and died at age 77 years old on August 27, 2002.

Wilbur D Breshears

Fayetteville, Cumberland County, NC 28301

December 15, 1924

August 27, 2002

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1924

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December 15, 1924

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2002

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August 27, 2002

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Wilbur D Breshears lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 77.

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In 1924, in the year that Wilbur D Breshears was born, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

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In 1944, Wilbur was 20 years old when on June 6th, the largest amphibious invasion in history was launched - the Normandy landing (called D-Day). Soldiers from the United States, Britain, Canada, and the Free French landed on Normandy Beach and were later joined by Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, and the Netherlands. Almost 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers were involved. Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on D-Day - Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000. 4,414 were confirmed dead.

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