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‘The first wave went through hell:’ The 16th Infantry Regiment’s role in victory on D-Day
South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoAmong the many Allied military units storming the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, was the 16th...
On 80th anniversary of D-Day, a Colorado WWII veteran reflects: “They knew they had to win at all...
Denver Post· 24 hours agoNearly 70 years passed before Indergand received the Bronze Star and oak leaf cluster he was...
How Kansas City soldier ‘liberated’ Hitler’s personal stationery
WDAF via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoS. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. “When I first got to France they took me to a large tent full of...
80 Years On: D-Day Diary Tells Heroic Story
AARP· 16 hours agoOn June 6, 1944, Anthony Sirco was a gunner’s mate on board the USS Arkansas — the oldest ship in the U.S. Navy and known as “Arky” — which shelled Omaha...
‘It feels very lonely’: 80 years after D-Day, only 2 USS Nevada crew members remain
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 24 hours agoBuilt just before World War I, the USS Nevada was the only battleship to have fought on D-Day and...
A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHoward I. Moorefield of North Carolina was handed a piece of paper...sign, fold and save his copy....
State & Union: Stories of area men and D-Day, 80 years ago today
Olean Times Herald· 1 day agoEighty years ago today, LaVerne Carlson of Olean spent the morning fighting his way onto Omaha Beach...
Florida WWII veterans return to Normandy for D-Day 80th anniversary: What to know
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 2 days agoTo mark the anniversary, President Biden, along with some WWII survivors, will head to France. Biden...
On 80th anniversary of D-Day, remembrance of Williamsburg-area soldiers who went ashore
Daily Press· 24 hours agoHistory records that four area men, two from Williamsburg and two from nearby King William County,...
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Anacortes American· 2 days agoGunman captured after shootout outside US Embassy in Lebanon