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The poem that launched D-Day for the French Resistance
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAs the Allies prepared to open a new front against Nazi Germany, they knew that sabotage by French...
Israel occupying Palestine echoes France colonising Algeria: Analysts
Al Jazeera· 2 days agoSeveral scholars believe Israel’s violent occupation of Palestinian lands has sharp parallels with...
D-Day anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans and shadowed by Europe's new war
FOX 25 Boston· 5 days agoOMAHA BEACH, France — (AP) — As young soldiers, they waded through breaking waves and gunfire to...
How a weather forecast impacted D-Day, altering the course of history
WBRZ 2 Baton Rouge· 4 days agoThe courage of around 160,000 Allied troops was displayed during the D-Day invasion on June 6th,...
D-Day commemorations to take place in Devon and Cornwall
BBC News· 5 days agoOn 6 June 1944 the world’s largest invasion by sea and air helped to turn the tide of World War Two...
D-Day quiz: 8 questions on the 80th anniversary
Newsweek· 5 days agoThe invasion, which remains the largest amphibious assault in history, involved forces from the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as many...
D-Day: What did NI’s newspapers report?
BBC News· 6 days ago"In this brief manner the United Nations, their enemies, and the peoples of neutral nations, were told that 'The Day' had arrived," the Belfast Telegraph...
How about a highway linking New York and London?
The Washington Times· 6 days agoThe subject was the construction of a New York-London highway, a breathtaking idea with great vision that also comes with significant geopolitical...
'My father fought on D-Day beaches - one unearthed interview left me in tears'
Daily Express· 7 days agoEyewitness accounts leave us in no doubt about quite how brutal June 6, 1944 was for so many. Marine...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Republican-American· 5 days agoSitting in a wheelchair in front of the graves of fallen comrades at the Normandy American Cemetery,...