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Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII
WRIC 8 News Richmond· 24 hours agoLONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of ...
D-Day: the biggest seaborne invasion in history
Press Association News via AOL· 6 hours agoThen, at 5.50am, as dawn broke over the coast, British and American warships opened up a massive bombardment of the Normandy beaches where the invasion...
Woman who was key wartime code-breaker commemorated with blue plaque
Press Association News via AOL· 2 days agoA code-breaker who played a key part in decrypting German messages during the Second World War will...
WW2 code-breaker gets blue plaque at London home
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA code-breaker who played a key role in decrypting German messages during World War Two has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Joan Clarke, who was portrayed by Keira Knightley ...
Purple Heart lost for decades returned to recipient's granddaughter on Memorial Day
ABC 7 El Paso· 4 days agoA woman drove from Oklahoma to Fort Bliss to receive her grandfather's Purple Heart, which was lost...
Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews D. Graham Burnett
New York Times· 7 hours agoEvery Tuesday and Friday, Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation about something that matters, like today’s episode with D. Graham Burnett. The historian of science D. Graham Burnett on ...
UK's first Black female lawmaker 'free' to stand for Labour at election after row over her future
Associated Press· 15 hours agoThe U.K.'s first Black female member of parliament will be allowed to stand for the Labour Party in...
Barred from combat, women working as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains helped D-Day succeed
Associated Press· 24 hours agoOne of those women was Marie Scott, who was a 17-year-old radio operator when she heard the chaos of...
Erdman in the Legislature: Four chaplains who gave all
North Platte Bulletin· 4 days agoThe SS Dorchester had been requisitioned as a troop carrier during the Second World War. While...
Christian Lamb made maps to guide the crews landing crafts at Normandy on D-Day
Associated Press· 24 hours agoWorking alone in a tiny office in London, Christian Lamb tried to make sure British troops were in exactly the right place when they scrambled onto Normandy’s beaches under enemy fire during ...
