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On D-Day, hundreds of Midlanders took part in Ike's grand gamble to save Europe
Omaha World-Herald· 16 hours agoIn the anxious final days before his giant gamble at Normandy, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took great...
80 years after D-Day, one of the men who helped prepare for the invasion tells his story
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoGeneral and soon-to-be President Dwight D. Eisenhower identified the Utah landing as “key to...
D-Day 80th commemorations in NI and France
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe school’s playing fields were the site of a World War Two army camp where Allied Commander General Dwight D Eisenhower< ...
Meet five men with Augusta-area connections who forged historic, heroic ties to D-Day
Gannett via AOL· 20 hours agoLanding in France during D-Day's third wave, Graziano was a witness to history beyond the invasion....
Lexington remembers 8 fallen soldiers with ties to city, commemorates D-Day
WKYT Lexington· 2 hours agoRep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, invoking the speech of then-Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. ...
Fargo’s Bill Hayes was a Sears store manager. He’s also featured in one of D-Day’s most famous...
The Fargo Forum· 2 days agoHayes is featured in the center of one of the most famous photos taken during World War II. He can...
Thousands turn out for National D-Day Memorial celebration marking 80th anniversary of invasion
RockinghamNow.com, Eden and Reidssville· 10 hours agoCatherine Cornand, executive vice president of Framatome’s Installed Base Business Unit, read Gen. ...
Spare a thought for weather watcher Maureen Sweeney who made the right call for D-Day
Associated Press· 1 day agoIn early June 1944, Sweeney sent a series of readings that helped persuade Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Louisiana honors its fallen: Remembrance of D-Day sacrifices
ABC 26 New Orleans· 2 days agoAs the echoes of D-Day fade, Louisiana bore deep scars of loss etched within its communities....
For Museum of World War II founder, this D-Day anniversary might be the most important ever
Gannett via AOL· 3 days agoWhat if Stagg had been wrong? What if the invasion failed...in power? When he started interviewing...