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The D-Day weather forecast that changed World War Two
BBC News· 1 hour agoAs a weather forecaster I'm acutely aware of the responsibility in guiding those decisions every...
Remembering with sadness, the British D-Day veterans recall the war they saw and knew
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoThe British D-Day veterans who gathered Monday to kick off events marking the 80th anniversary of...
Christian Lamb made maps to guide the crews landing crafts at Normandy on D-Day
Midland Reporter-Telegram· 5 days agoReferring to huge maps of the French coast on the wall in front of her, the young Women’s...
I found my grandad’s D-Day diary and went to Normandy to retrace his steps
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoDiary entry, June 6 1944: “Land (invasion) 07.30hrs, done little in morning, afternoon with...
D-Day shipwrecks were a WW2 time capsule – now they are home to rich ocean-floor life
BBC News· 22 minutes agoAmong the 80-year-old sunken D-Day wrecks that line our coasts, burgeoning wildlife is thriving on...
Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 hours agoSitting in a wheelchair in front of the graves of fallen comrades at the Normandy American Cemetery,...
How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoWhitehead arrived with other journalists in southern England to cover the Allies' imminent D-Day ...
D-Day veteran recalls the horrors of 1944 as he celebrates his 100th birthday
Press Association News via AOL· 2 days agoHe told his well-wishers...drifts and freezing temperatures in the Ardennes at Christmas 1944. And,...
D-Day at 80: How Dayton’s newspapers reported it
WDTN-TV 2 Dayton· 15 hours ago“Nazis Report Invasion; Allies Silent — Unverified Broadcast Tells Of 2 ‘Landings’ In French Channel Area” That Dayton Journal-Herald headline, splashed...
'My father fought on D-Day beaches - one unearthed interview left me in tears'
Daily Express· 15 hours agoEyewitness accounts leave us in no doubt about quite how brutal June 6, 1944 was for so many. Marine...