 Eighty years ago on D-Day, 19-year-old combat medic and Penobscot tribal member Charles Norman Shea exhibited extraordinary heroism. After reaching shore unharmed, he ran back into the water over and over again as gunfire rained down, rescuing injured soldiers before they drowned. Shea received the Silver Star and the French Légion d'Honneur for his heroism, and today there is a monument to him and other Native American soldiers at Omaha Beach.