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The D-Day beaches in France and the Caen Peace Memorial Museum honor America’s heroes
The Stockton Record via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFrance is a country riven by war for centuries. Invasions by Vikings, Normans, the English and...
What was the role of Northern Ireland soldiers on D-Day?
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoEighty years ago soldiers from across Ireland were bracing themselves for D-Day. By air and by sea...
David Mylchreest: Normandy veteran and one of the first Allied soldiers to cross the Seine in 1944
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHaving landed in Normandy on 12 June 1944 (D-Day plus six, in military parlance), 20-year-old 2nd...
80 years ago, on the beaches of Normandy, WWII shifted course: Here's how D-Day unfolded
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 1 week agoOperation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, was the...
Memorial represents lasting legacy of D-Day veteran
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe daughter of a D-Day veteran from Kent said her father wanted a new generation to learn from the lessons of the past. Albert Figg, a gunner from...
Memorial bench honours Warwickshire D-Day soldiers
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA memorial bench honouring 154 soldiers killed or injured has been set-up in Lebisey Wood [BBC] A memorial bench has been unveiled to honour 154 men...
Spitfire in fatal crash was used in D-Day operation
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe Spitfire came down in a field near RAF Coningsby on Saturday - Jake Zuckerman/BBC The RAF Spitfire which crashed on Saturday killing the pilot flew...
With time short, veterans seize the chance to keep their D-Day memories alive for others
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 week agoKen Hay’s part in the invasion of Normandy lasted just a few weeks, but he wants to make sure the...
The brave nurses at the centre of D-Day memorial
BBC via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe 8ft (2.5m) silhouettes of Sister Mollie Evershed and Sister Dorothy Field are at the centre of the Standing With Giants installation [Dawid...
‘Hell on earth’: Revisiting Normandy with one of the last D-Day veterans
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 week agoD-Day veteran and former infantryman in the East Lancashire Regiment's 1st Battalion, Richard Brock...