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D-Day 80th anniversary: What is D-Day and what happened on June 6, 1944?
WSB Radio· 10 hours agoU.S. Gen. Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe, along with...
Biden marks D-Day anniversary as he aims to shore up ties with Europe - and underscores Trump’s...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoBiden is set to join more than 24 world leaders, and some of the last surviving veterans of the 1944...
A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoThe nation’s highest military decoration The Medal of Honor awarded to Pfc. Francis X. McGraw for...
D-Day 80th anniversary events around NI
BBC via Yahoo News· 20 minutes agoThe R IRISH...landed by glider near the town on 6 June 1944. He was killed by a German sniper during the battle at Sainte-Honorine and Longueval. His...
D-Day anniversary shines spotlight on ‘Rosies’ who built WWII weapons
Military Times via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoThe women had their own icon in “Rosie the Riveter,” a woman in a polka-dotted bandanna...
Royal news – latest: Prince William says Kate would have loved to have been at D-Day events
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoAnne’s words of tribute came as she unveiled a statue in Normandy of a rifleman from the Royal...
Putin says West is wrong to assume Russia would never use nuclear weapons
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoRussian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the West was wrong to assume that Moscow...
Prince William gives update on Kate at D-Day event as princess continues cancer recovery
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 hours ago(REUTERS) “The mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters who watched their loved...
‘Papa Jake’ among the centenarian veterans sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
KNOE Monroe LA· 1 hour agoSitting in a wheelchair in front of the graves of fallen comrades at the Normandy American Cemetery,...
Tom Schaffer, paratrooper who was one of the last survivors of the Battle of the Bulge – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoTom Schaffer, who has died aged 97, was one of the last men surviving to have served in the 13th...