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Black medic who saved dozens of lives on D-Day is finally being posthumously honored
Anchorage Daily News· 11 hours agoWaverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in the D-Day...
At 100, this vet says the ‘greatest generation’ moniker fits ‘because we saved the world’
Rapid City Journal· 3 hours agoAndrew “Andy” Negra Jr. of Helen, Georgia, is one of a dwindling number of veterans who took part in...
How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy
San Francisco Chronicle· 23 hours agoWhen Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead arrived with other journalists in southern England...
D-Day: 80th anniversary ceremonies kick off with parachute jump over Normandy
WHIO-TV 7 Dayton· 2 days agoCARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France — A week of D-Day ceremonies kicked off Sunday over the skies of...
'I thought, my God, they're ready for us. They know we've arrived' – How WW2's D-Day began with a...
BBC News· 1 day agoD-Day was a marvel of planning; it involved the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of Allied...
Will the last big anniversary for D-Day vets also be the last for the Western alliance?
AOL· 4 hours agoOn Thursday — the 80th anniversary of D-Day, perhaps the last major milestone for many of the invasion’s dwindling heroes — that peace in Europe finds itself ...
Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoU.S. Army Rangers prepare to depart England for the D-Day invasion. Photo12/UIG/Getty Images Among...
A Black medic wounded on D-Day saved dozens of lives. He's finally being posthumously honored
Albany Times Union· 21 hours agoWaverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in the D-Day...
Vince Bzdek: 'The biggest undertaking by mankind in the history of the world'
Colorado Springs Gazette· 2 days agoShortly after the D-Day invasion started 80 years ago this week, Supreme Commander Dwight D....
What was the role of Northern Ireland soldiers on D-Day?
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEighty years ago soldiers from across Ireland were bracing themselves for D-Day. By air and by sea...