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80th anniversary of deadly D-Day rehearsal marked
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days 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...
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Service in Devon remembers D-Day rehearsal tragedy
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe vessels were heading from Lyme Bay to Slapton Sands when they were attacked during Exercise Tiger [BBC] A service has taken place to commemorate the...
D-Day veterans recall looking forward to cups of tea and bailing out of tanks
Press Association News via AOL· 7 days agoD-Day veterans have told children how they were “looking forward to cups of tea” after landing in...
Town where key D-Day decision made not lighting beacon
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe beacon on Dunstable Downs, has stood for decades and is lit to commemorate certain events [Getty...
Family reunited with 'amazing' lost wartime letters
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours ago“I wonder if you had heard about the second front starting?” he writes. “It started on June 6, and everything went according to plan, but they do not...
D-Day TikTok star ‘Papa Jake’ was 15 when he enlisted
WJHL· 3 days agoWorld War II veteran Jake Larson, a 100-year-old American best known on social media under the name...
In ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz,’ a love story blooms in the darkest of times and places
CNN via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoOn top of that, the 80th anniversary of D-Day is prompting an onslaught of documentary fare devoted...
Las Vegas veteran headed to Normandy, 80 years after D-Day
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 6 days agoThe last known D-Day veteran in Las Vegas will return to Normandy. Again. Five years ago, Onofrio...
The D-Day miracle that you’ve never heard of
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoGeneral George Patton was always a man in a hurry. As a cavalryman who wore breeches long after horses were no longer on the front line, he wanted his...