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In France, D-Day evokes both the joys of liberation and the pain of Normandy’s 20,000 civilian dead
ABC 26 New Orleans· 1 hour 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· 1 hour agoThe aftermath of a brazen attack on a prison convoy has raised uncomfortable questions for France’s...
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...
Teen phenom Mirra Andreeva gears up for the biggest match of her career
ESPN· 10 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...
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...
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...
Four women are buried among several thousand men at the US’s D-Day cemetery. These are their...
Stars and Stripes· 22 hours agoCOLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Among the roughly 9,400 graves at Normandy American Cemetery are those...
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...
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