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D-Day 80th Anniversary: Your Guide To Commemorative Events In Normandy
Forbes· 1 day agoThe festival for the 80th anniversary of D-Day will take place from Pegasus Bridge to...
80th anniversary of deadly D-Day rehearsal marked
BBC via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoPoppy petals were dropped from a Wasp helicopter as part of the event [PA Media] A service to mark the 80th anniversary of a D-Day rehearsal exercise...
Mourners gather for funeral of D-Day veteran, 97
BBC via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoWilliam Tolley joined the armed forces as a young man [BBC] Mourners gathered in Yeovil on Friday afternoon for the funeral of a 97-year-old D-Day...
Town where key D-Day decision made not lighting beacon
BBC via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoThe beacon on Dunstable Downs, has stood for decades and is lit to commemorate certain events [Getty...
D-Day veterans recall looking forward to cups of tea and bailing out of tanks
Press Association News via AOL· 21 hours agoD-Day veterans have told children how they were “looking forward to cups of tea” after landing in...
Normandy veterans share ‘bit of living history’ ahead of D-Day anniversary
Press Association News via AOL· 19 hours agoA group of Second World War veterans have come together to share a “bit of living history” ahead of...
100-year-old British D-Day veteran dies before he can honor fallen comrades one more time
KRQE & KASA FOX 2 Albuquerque· 3 days agoLONDON (AP) — British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet...
Newspaper headlines: 'Return of the King' and 'teacher shortage crisis'
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoIt says his return to work will begin with a visit to a cancer centre on Tuesday, and that he also...
How one of D-Day’s youngest heroes became a paratrooper at 17
WFLA· 12 hours agoDonna Allen only met her father once when she was a baby.
D-Day 80: Normandy veteran, 103, 'determined' to make event
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoDon Sheppard will be 104 years old when the D-Day 80 commemorations take place. [Stuart...