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In France, D-Day evokes both the joys of liberation and the pain of Normandy’s 20,000 civilian dead
KTLA-TV Los Angeles· 5 hours agoCARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France (AP) — Shortly after D-Day in 1944, the American soldiers heading out to...
A Deadly Ambush, a Giant Manhunt and 3 Weeks With No Arrest
New York Times· 5 hours agoThe aftermath of a brazen attack on a prison convoy has raised uncomfortable questions for France’s...
Teen phenom Mirra Andreeva gears up for the biggest match of her career
ESPN· 14 hours agoFor a brief moment in the early hours on Friday morning, Mirra Andreeva looked her age. The...
D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out | Ed Vulliamy
New York Review of Books· 6 days agoAt lunchtime in the small Normandy town of Évrecy, men gather in the tabac-café-bar to wager on the next harness race through the PMU betting network. Up...
The perfect holiday in Normandy
Daily Telegraph· 2 days agoThere are two specific reasons for visiting Normandy this year. Second, it is 150 years since the impressionists – Monet, Dégas, Renoir, Pissarro and the...
Why these women are the only ones to receive this high WWII honor
FOX 8 Cleveland· 6 days agoMary Bankston, Mary Barlow, Dolores Brown and Elizabeth Richardson are the only women to be buried...
Four women are buried among several thousand men at the US’s D-Day cemetery. These are their...
Stars and Stripes· 1 day agoCOLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Among the roughly 9,400 graves at Normandy American Cemetery are those...
Cruise to northern France commemorates 80th anniversary of D-Day invasion
Chicago Tribune· 7 days agoAs the last notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner” faded away, retired Lt. Col. Max Torrence held...
Today in History
Arizona Daily Sun· 5 days agoIn 1922, the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in a ceremony attended by President Warren G. Harding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft...
On This Day, May 30: Congress establishes Everglades National Park
UPI· 6 days agoOn May 30, 1934, the House of Representatives voted to create the Everglades National Park to...
