89-year-old D-Day hero returns to Normandy

82nd Airborne Division Medic Staff Sgt Fred 'Ted' Morgan taking part in a 67th Anniversary of D-Day ceremony Ste. Mere Eglise, Normandy, June 5, 2011.

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Staff Sgt. Fred "Ted" Morgan is seen in a photo from Italy in 1944.

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82nd Airborne Division Medic Staff Sgt. Fred "Ted" Morgan with fellow WWII medic Darrell 'Pinky' Pinkston at La Fiere Bridge, Normandy, June 5, 2011.

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Airborne Division Medic Staff Sgt. Fred 'Ted' Morgan returns to La Fiere Bridge Normandy, 67 years after he helped secure the area against the Germans, June 5, 2011.

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82nd Airborne Division Medic Staff Sgt. Fred 'Ted' Morgan shows his youngest child - 49-year-old son Scott Morgan - around Ste Mere Eglise, Normandy.

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A French Farmer shows WWII Veteran Fred 'Ted' Morgan a plasma bottle used by medics to treat wounded during the war. The farmer found it years later buried in the fields near Ste Mere Eglise, Normandy, June 5, 2011.

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Fred 'Ted' Morgan hugging an active duty soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division at a D-Day Commemoration Ceremony Ste. Mere Eglise, Normandy, June 5, 2011.

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Fred 'Ted' Morgan remembers what it was like defending La Fiere bridge against the Germans - one of the bloodiest battles in Normandy, June 5, 2011.

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Fred 'Ted' Morgan shows CBS Correspondent Anthony Mason where he hunkered down and treated a wounded soldier during the WWII battle of La Fiere Bridge, Normandy, June 6, 2011.

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