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Local theater will celebrate veterans for 80th Anniversary of D-Day
KKCO Grand Junction CO· 1 day agoWar II veterans many of whom have served in Europe. To mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Picture Show in Grand Junction will feature ...
Incredible pictures of D-Day veterans reuniting 80 years after saving Britain
Daily Express· 7 days agoIn all some 13 veterans - the very best of British - gathered to reminisce and salute those who...
Christian Lamb made maps to guide the crews landing crafts at Normandy on D-Day
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 days agoReferring to huge maps of the French coast on the wall in front of her, the young Women’s...
Veteran visiting Normandy on D-Day anniversary to ‘pay respects to shipmates’
Press Association News via AOL· 3 days agoHis job was to stop any U-boats attacking the invasion force going across to France. “I think we...
'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...
At 100, this vet says the ‘greatest generation’ moniker fits ‘because we saved the world’
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 46 minutes agoIt was 1943, and new grad Andrew “Andy” Negra Jr. was thinking of college. “But Uncle Sam had that...
Fort Carson soldier meets World War II veteran in Normandy ahead of D-Day 80th anniversary
KDVR Denver via Yahoo News· 2 days agoNavarro-Acosta is stationed at Fort Carson. He had no idea his special assignment to participate in ...
At 100, this vet says the ‘greatest generation’ moniker fits ‘because we saved the world’
Billings Gazette· 46 minutes agoAndrew “Andy” Negra Jr. of Helen, Georgia, is one of a dwindling number of veterans who took part in...
D-Day deception Operation Fortitude: The World War Two army that didn't exist
BBC News· 3 days agoEighty years after D-Day, a look at the biggest deception operation of World War Two – the invention...
‘Sorry for throwing grenades in your cellar.’ The unusual fate of the first house liberated in D-Day...
KOAM· 1 day agoBernieres-sur-Mer, France (CNN) — Their target was an elegant, two-story villa sitting solitary on a misty beach. It was D-Day, and on that overcast morning ...