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Protesters steal ceremonial flags and scrawl anti-Macron graffiti in D-Day town
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe SAS memorial in Plumelec for the seventy-seven paratroopers of the Free French Forces who died...
The poem that launched D-Day for the French Resistance
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn 1939, Germany was on the rise, Czechoslovakia was occupied, and Britain made a seemingly minor...
The last of the Free French Commandos who landed at Normandy on D-Day dies at 100
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 11 months agofree french commandos On June 6, 1944, 177 members of Commando Kieffer landed on the Normandy shore...
80 Years After D-Day, France Examines the Trauma of Allied Bombings
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoEUROPE NEWS SAINT-LÔ, France—On the evening of June 6, 1944, U.S. bombers appeared in the skies over...
On This Day, Nov. 10: Congress establishes Congaree National Park
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOn November 10, 2003, U.S. Congress redesignated Congaree National Monument as Congaree National...
Military veteran who was shot down in France in WWII celebrates his 100th birthday
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAlfred Arrieta, 100, served as a U.S. airman in France during World War II. He flew 32 missions, was...
Frantz Fanon’s Conflicted Vision for Decolonization
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNear the end of The Battle of Algiers, the 1966 film directed by Italian leftist Gillo Pontecorvo, crowds waving flags and chanting slogans surge into...
What Churchill Really Thought of His Enemies
Time via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMarshal Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) and Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) together at the Livedia Palace in Yalta, where they were both present for the...
5 big military moments that took place on Christmas Day
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Passage of The Delaware by Thomas SullyWikipedia Even though Christmas is a major holiday, big...
France's last surviving D-Day commando dies aged 100
Reuters via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLeon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commando unit that waded ashore on D-Day alongside allied troops to begin the liberation of France,...