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The poem that launched D-Day for the French Resistance
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoAs the Allies prepared to open a new front against Nazi Germany, they knew that sabotage by French...
D-Day anniversary marked by dwindling number of veterans
Military Times via Yahoo News· 13 hours ago“We’ll learn one of these days, but I won’t be around for that,” he said. U.S. President Joe Biden...
At 100, this vet says the ‘greatest generation’ moniker fits ‘because we saved the world’
Rapid City Journal· 3 days agoAndrew “Andy” Negra Jr. of Helen, Georgia, is one of a dwindling number of veterans who took part in...
D-Day commemorations to take place in Devon and Cornwall
BBC News· 1 day agoOn 6 June 1944 the world’s largest invasion by sea and air helped to turn the tide of World War Two...
How a weather forecast impacted D-Day, altering the course of history
WBRZ 2 Baton Rouge· 8 hours agoThe courage of around 160,000 Allied troops was displayed during the D-Day invasion on June 6th,...
D-Day anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans and shadowed by Europe's new war
San Francisco Chronicle· 10 hours agoNow bent with age, the dwindling number of World War II veterans joined a new generation of leaders...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Republican-American· 22 hours agoSitting in a wheelchair in front of the graves of fallen comrades at the Normandy American Cemetery,...
D-Day quiz: 8 questions on the 80th anniversary
Newsweek· 1 day agoThe invasion, which remains the largest amphibious assault in history, involved forces from the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as many...
What did the papers say about D-Day?
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day ago'Invasion going well' Eighty years later, D-Day is still being remembered for its significance in world history and as a turning point in the allies'...
