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‘The chance to remember’: Soldier dedicates parachute jump on D-Day to honor his grandfather’s...
Stars and Stripes· 1 day agoAs Command Sgt. Maj. Vern Daley prepared for a parachute jump over Alaska on Thursday with the 11th...
Congressmen’s parachute jump to mark D-Day | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 5 hours agoWearing a World War II uniform and carrying mementos from two members of the Greatest Generation,...
From the Archives: 5 U.S. Army Nurses Become First Allied Women to Land
Stars and Stripes· 7 hours agoFive U.S. Army nurses Saturday [June 10, 1944] became the first Allied women to land in France when...
Somerset D-Day veteran reflects on Normandy landings 80 years on
BBC News· 5 hours agoA 100-year-old veteran who was injured during the D-Day landings said he had found himself "in a war...
Remembering D-Day: Army vet to parachute into Normandy to mark invasion's 80th anniversary
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHe then flew from Devon to Normandy in a historic plane and parachuted down, wearing a WWII-style ...
The humble heroes who kept their tales of war to themselves
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 day ago"I think it affected him very much and I remember as a little girl my brother going into the linen...
Collecting Michigan’s D-Day stories
WLNS Lansing via Yahoo News· 5 hours agoA Michigan native's D-Day story is one of many wartime memories captured among the hundreds of artifacts and documents in the Archives of Michigan and...
2024 primary election: Research the 5 Republican candidates for York County Sheriff
Rock Hill Herald via Yahoo News· 4 days agoI would also like to bolster the uniform patrol in all Districts to aid in the proactive policing...
On D-Day, hundreds of Midlanders took part in Ike's grand gamble to save Europe
Omaha World-Herald· 1 day agoEditor's note: This story first ran in The World-Herald in 2014, on the 70th anniversary of the...
Maryland Army National Guard Soldiers in Normandy for D-Day Anniversary
ABC 2 Baltimore· 2 days agoThe massive, allied invasion of France that opened the western front in Europe during World War II known as D-Day is marking 80 years. The National Guard here in Maryland is in Normandy this ...