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Manchester D-Day veteran recalls 'carnage' of Normandy landing
BBC News· 12 hours agoA 100-year-old D-Day veteran has recalled the "carnage" that confronted him on landing at Normandy...
Opinion | The storms that nearly canceled D-Day
Washington Post· 7 hours agoGarrett M. Graff is a historian and the author, most recently, of “When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day,” from which the following is...
At 100, this vet says the ‘greatest generation’ moniker fits ‘because we saved the world’
Grand Island Independent· 6 hours agoAndrew “Andy” Negra Jr. of Helen, Georgia, is one of a dwindling number of veterans who took part in...
The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy -...
WTOP Washington· 4 hours agoVeterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June...
The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and fallen friends and to cement their legacy
U-T San Diego· 4 hours agoVeterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June...
‘Sorry for throwing grenades in your cellar.’ The unusual fate of the first house liberated in D-Day...
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA villa in the French town of Bernieres-sur-Mer is thought to be the first building captured by...
But for Mrs. Sweeney, D-Day might have stood for ‘disaster’
The Lake County Record-Bee· 5 days agoOPINION- Now, as we approach the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that began the liberation of...
BUT FOR MRS. SWEENEY, D-DAY MIGHT HAVE STOOD FOR 'DISASTER'
Morning Times· 3 days agoNow, as we approach the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that began the liberation of Europe from Nazi control, let us praise an obscure woman.
‘Sorry for throwing grenades in your cellar.’ The unusual fate of the first house liberated in D-Day...
CNN.com· 1 day agoIt was D-Day, and on that overcast morning on June 6, 1944, 10 boats filled with Canadian troops...
80 years after D-Day, the number of WWII veterans is dwindling
Post-Bulletin· 19 minutes agoMost of what Williams learned about his uncle, he said, came from old newspaper clippings about the division, a few conversations with his reluctant uncle and some letters he sent home during ...