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Why the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony won't take place in a stadium
WUSA 9 Washington, D.C.· 15 hours agoExactly 100 years since the Olympics were last staged in Paris, and 128 years since its modern...
‘Everything you read about D-Day is a load of rubbish, I was there’
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoGeorge Chandler, 99, served on board a British motor torpedo boat as part of a flotilla that...
UK D-Day veterans set sail for Normandy 80 years on
Reuters· 1 day agoTwo dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth, England, on Tuesday, bound for the beaches of Normandy...
Centenarian vets are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Military Times via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoThey just said, “Your service days are over. We don’t need you no more.'’’ George Chandler George...
D-Day shipwrecks were a WW2 time capsule – now they are home to rich ocean-floor life
BBC News· 3 hours agoAmong the 80-year-old sunken D-Day wrecks that line our coasts, burgeoning wildlife is thriving on...
Chilling resurfaced video shows inside of cockpit moments before Boeing 737 crashes into the pacific
UNILAD· 34 minutes agoFootage from a plane crash shows the terrifying final moments in the cockpit before the aircraft hit...
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole mark D-day anniversary
BBC News· 3 days agoA flotilla of vessels led by Poole Harbour Commissioners is among the events planned in Bournemouth,...
US Coast Guard Auxiliary offers safety training and certification
Mohave Daily News· 2 days agoU.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla wants boaters to be safe this summer. "Outside of the Great...
Opinion | The Pentagon is learning how to change at the speed of war
Washington Post· 18 hours agoFor several decades, military reformers such as retired Navy Capt. Jerry Hendrix have pleaded with...
Remembering with sadness, the British D-Day veterans recall the war they saw and knew
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoLes Underwood, 98, a Royal Navy gunner on a merchant ship that was delivering ammunition to the...