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Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII - ABC17NEWS
ABC17 NEWS· 6 days agoBy DANICA KIRKA Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish ...
‘Nobody told us where we were going,’ recalls D-Day veteran Alec
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe allies knew any invasion of Normandy could be seriously jeopardised by German U-boats, so Mr...
Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII
Dayton Daily News· 6 days agoLONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her.
Woman who was key wartime code-breaker commemorated with blue plaque
Press Association News via AOL· 7 days agoA code-breaker who played a key part in decrypting German messages during the Second World War will...
Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII - KVIA
ABC 7 El Paso· 6 days agoPat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. As the Nazis took control of Germany and Austria, her father hired Jewish refugees to cook and clean at the family home in Lancashire, ...
Veteran visiting Normandy on D-Day anniversary to ‘pay respects to shipmates’
Press Association News via AOL· 4 days agoD-Day veteran JAlec Penstone, pictured at the age of 20 (Blind Veterans UK/PA) After the war...
Memories of Cunard's 'spiritual home' in Liverpool
BBC News· 3 days agoPeople in Liverpool are sharing their memories of Cunard Line as the city is set to stage the naming ceremony for the cruise company's newest ship. The...
D-Day: the biggest seaborne invasion in history
Press Association News via AOL· 5 days agoThen, at 5.50am, as dawn broke over the coast, British and American warships opened up a massive bombardment of the Normandy beaches where the invasion...
Barred from combat, women working as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains helped D-Day succeed
WKBT La Crosse· 3 days agoWhat did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War II, the...
Why D-Day was even more spectacular than remembered
NY Post via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJune 6 marks 80 years since Allied Forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of Operation Overlord, the campaign to defeat the Nazis and...