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Fortress Europe? The Nazi 'wall' that failed to prevent D-Day
AFP via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFor the 80th D-Day landings anniversary, AFP travelled the coastlines from northern Norway to...
Recognizing, celebrating 'Our Boys' this D-Day
Gannett via AOL· 4 days agoThe drain on Hitler’s resources of men and materiel was great. He had no choice but to stop westward expansion. He assigned the great General Erwin ...
3 lessons of D-Day the world can’t afford to forget
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoShe later told me that almost all of those she exchanged addresses with died on those beaches. D-Day was no slam dunk. No less a general than Erwin ...
The French seaside resort sacrificed to keep D-Day secret
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIt is a warm afternoon on the Opal Coast of northern France. At the headland where Le Touquet runs...
D-Day: how allies prepared military build-up of astonishing dimensions
The Week· 4 days agoThe Americans had been pushing for an invasion of northwest Europe from soon after they joined the...
Recognizing D-Day sacrifices for representative democracy, as America faces a new reckoning
Utah News Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 days agoEighty years ago today, in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the largest invasion fleet in...
Remembering a beloved uncle 80 years after he fought the Nazis at Omaha Beach
Wichita Eagle via Yahoo News· 4 days agoHe had been in two invasions before D-Day. He landed in North Africa and watched from a mountain...
The Beaches Of D-Day: Photographer Olivier Morin’s Extraordinary Portfolio Of Omaha, Juno And Gold
Forbes· 4 days agoParticipating Allied military units began at dawn on June 6, at least one British unit commemorating...
The D-Day weather forecast that changed World War Two
BBC News· 5 days agoAs a weather forecaster I'm acutely aware of the responsibility in guiding those decisions every...
D-Day's importance remembered in Attleboro area, worldwide
The Sun Chronicle· 4 days agoThe invasion of Normandy, also known as D-Day or Operation Overlord, was the beginning of the end of...