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Eisenhower carrier strike group deployment extended
Navy Times· 2 days agoU.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signed the order last week to extend the four ships’ deployment for a second time, rather than bring the carrier, the...
World War II veterans will travel from Dallas to Normandy
Dallas Morning News· 4 days agoOn May 31, they will travel again — to Dallas. Following a 1940s-themed send-off — to be attended by...
How AP covered the D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in the battle for Normandy
WWTI Watertown· 1 day agoNEW YORK (AP) — When Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead arrived with other journalists in...
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. ...
At 100, this vet says the ‘greatest generation’ moniker fits ‘because we saved the world’
Southwest Iowa's daily newspaper· 5 hours agoAndrew “Andy” Negra Jr. of Helen, Georgia, is one of a dwindling number of veterans who took part in...
At 100, this vet says the ‘greatest generation’ moniker fits ‘because we saved the world’
The Journal Times· 5 hours agoAndrew “Andy” Negra Jr. of Helen, Georgia, is one of a dwindling number of veterans who took part in...
D-Day veterans recall sad memories as they gather at invasion planning HQ
Press Association News via AOL· 23 hours agoVeterans have spoken of their “sad memories” as they gathered at the headquarters where D-Day was...
Column: D-Day’s historic importance remembered as 80th anniversary approaches
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoA year of extremely brutal, almost continuous combat lay ahead, but the end of Nazi Germany was in...
‘Everything you read about D-Day is a load of rubbish, I was there’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoHe said: “Let me assure you, what you read in those silly books that have been written about D-Day...
D-Day Anniversary brings spotlight onto Abilene, Kansas
KCTV 5 Kansas City· 5 days agoJune 6th, 1944 was D-Day, also known as Operation Overlord. Historians refer to it as one of...