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D-Day: Eisenhower and the paratroopers who were key to success
CBS News· 5 days agoOn the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with...
‘The Light of Battle’ Review: Eisenhower’s Road to Normandy
The Wall Street Journal· 8 hours agoAt the top of it all, there was only one supreme allied commander, a 53-year-old American general...
Lest we forget: Kansans gather to remember, honor D-Day, WWII soldiers
Tribune via AOL· 4 days agomarked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. To remember Operation Overlord, several Kansas figures and the public gathered around the statue of ...
Janie Slaven: LIVING ON PURPOSE: A time for war and a time for peace
The Times-Tribune, Corbin, Ky. via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJun. 9—On June 6th, 1944, America under the guidance of General Dwight Eisenhower and its allies engaged in one of the most significant military operations ...
Yemen's Houthi rebels launch 2 cruise missles and hit ship in Gulf of Aden, sparking blaze, US says
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoThe U.S. said Thursday that the Iranian-backed Houthis launched two anti-ship cruise missiles and...
Today in History: ‘Under God’ added to the Pledge of Allegiance
Chicago Tribune· 15 hours agoOn June 14, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
'It was like finding gold for a girl who barely knew her dad': A Father's Day story
Chicago Sun-Times· 7 hours agoFrank R. Doubek died from an infection at age 46, four days after my third birthday, leaving behind...
US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 hours agoThe U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and...
The Last Good Republican
The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record· 20 hours agoFinding the last good Republican president was not hard in light of the moving 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on the beaches and by the cliffs of...
Remembering the day when common men saved the world | PHIL WILLIAMS
The Gadsden Times via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAlso, on a shelf in my study is a brass shell casing fired in the 21-gun salute for Dwight ...