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D-Day veterans set sail for France ahead of 80th anniversary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoWellwishers wave Union Jack flags as D-Day veterans depart from Portsmouth - AFP via Getty Image A...
Heroism of RAF medic who landed on D-Day’s bloodiest beach ‘by mistake’
Daily Telegraph· 2 hours agoAlthough Flt Lt Rycroft became one of a tiny handful of RAF officers to be awarded the Military...
What Ike Remembered When Returning to the Beaches of Normandy 20 Years After D-Day
Military.com via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoIn the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division tried to...
D-Day veterans: 'You did what you had to do'
BBC News· 14 hours agoAhead of the anniversary of D-Day BBC News has spoken to veterans across Cornwall and Devon about what they experienced. On 6 June 1944, Allied troops...
How the AP covered D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in battle for Normandy
Dallas Morning News· 6 hours agoWhen Associated Press correspondent Don Whitehead arrived with other journalists in southern England...
French Navy lands at Omaha Beach during D-Day anniversary event
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoD-Day, an invasion of Nazi-occupied France, was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the...
80 years on, UK D-Day veterans set sail for Normandy once again
Reuters via AOL· 10 hours agoTwo dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth,...
D-Day veteran weeps as he returns to Sword Beach
Press Association News via AOL· 2 hours agoA D-Day veteran wept on the Normandy beach where he landed 80 years ago, after local people shook his hand and thanked him. Four veterans, Donald Jones,...
Manchester D-Day veteran recalls 'carnage' of Normandy landing
BBC News· 14 hours agoA 100-year-old D-Day veteran has recalled the "carnage" that confronted him on landing at Normandy...
D-Day veteran recalls working on Alan Turing's Bombe machine for the first time
Homenewshere.com· 4 hours agoA D-Day veteran has reflected on her astonishing achievements ahead of the 80th anniversary of the...
