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The D-Day weather forecast that changed World War Two
BBC News· 8 hours agoAs a weather forecaster I'm acutely aware of the responsibility in guiding those decisions every...
Barred from combat, women working as codebreakers, cartographers and coxswains helped D-Day succeed
Quad-City Times· 3 days agoJune 5, 1944: On the morning of June 5, amid bad weather fears, U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the...
Opinion | ‘Almost terrifying to contemplate’: Why D-Day nearly didn’t happen
Washington Post· 1 day agoOperation Overlord, led by Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, involved 1 million...
Eisenhower statue unveiled at one of first villages liberated by Allied troops in France
Stars and Stripes· 2 days agoSAINTE-MÈRE-ÉGLISE, France — American military leaders past and present were on hand Monday to...
Portsmouth chosen to mark D-Day because of its key role in preparing invasion
Press Association News via AOL· 1 day agoThe map room at Southwick House, which was the nerve centre of planning for the Normandy landings...
How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy
WHIO-TV 7 Dayton· 2 days agoVeteran war correspondent Wes Gallagher — who would later run the entire Associated Press — directed...
World War II veterans will travel from Dallas to Normandy
Dallas Morning News· 5 days agoOn May 31, they will travel again — to Dallas. Following a 1940s-themed send-off — to be attended by...
Trump Openly Threatens to Imprison Political Enemies
New Republic· 3 hours agoAs shocking as Biden’s change is, Donald Trump could make things even worse if he is elected in November. Trump is also expected to bring his former...
When 'Wheel of Fortune' came to Naval Station Norfolk in 1995
13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads· 23 hours agoIn 1995, "Wheel of Fortune" came to Hampton Roads and featured two weeks of episodes on board an...
Remembering D-Day: Facts, figures, timeline of the battle that changed the course of WWII
Dallas Morning News· 21 hours agoThe June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity,...