"Don't forget what we did for freedom," one veteran said. A World War II veteran who stormed the French beaches of Normandy on D-Day 76 years ago recently accomplished his latest mission: to find the ...
Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...
I’ve covered many anniversaries of D-Day, and they never lose their power to move. We were at the 81st anniversary at the stunning American cemetery in Normandy near Omaha Beach on Friday. American ...
A group of roughly two dozen veterans from World War II have traveled to Normandy, France for D-Day remembrances. Delta Air Lines and the Best Defense Foundation held a special sendoff. A local World ...
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (WOI-DT) – As the United States marks Veterans Day, a 98-year-old veteran in Iowa has been reflecting on his parachute jump over the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. Don ...
(CNN) — In an age when clocks are found in most pockets and on every screen, watchmaker Col&MacArthur’s selling point is not just time, but history itself. Known for using unconventional materials — ...
What happened on D-Day? The US troops were assigned to Utah beach at the base of the Cotentin Peninsular and Omaha Beach at the northern end of the Normandy coast. The British subsequently landed on ...
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