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Pope Leo’s ‘greatest generation’ dad served on D-Day tank landing ship

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U.S. Navy LSTs and other vessels unloading at low tide at Normandy, soon after the June 1944 invasion. USS LST-55 is in the center, behind the closest barrage balloon. USS LST-61 is at right. / Credit: Steck, U.S. Army Signal Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 12, 2025 / 17:26 pm (CNA). Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior lie…

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Leo XIV's father landed with the Allies in 1944

Louis Marius Prevost served in the ranks of the US Navy during the Second World War. In 1944, he participated in the two successive Allied landings on French soil, in Normandy and in Provence.

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Pope Leo’s ‘greatest generation’ dad served on D-Day tank landing ship

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Father of Pope Leo XIV participated in the landings of Normandy and Provence

Louis Marius Prévost served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He participated in the D-Day landing in Normandy on June 6, 1944, as part of Operation Overlord.

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