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D-Day: Eisenhower and the paratroopers who were key to success
CBS News· 5 days agoOn the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with...
‘The Light of Battle’ Review: Eisenhower’s Road to Normandy
The Wall Street Journal· 3 hours agoAt the top of it all, there was only one supreme allied commander, a 53-year-old American general...
The Last Good Republican
The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record· 15 hours agoFinding the last good Republican president was not hard in light of the moving 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion on the beaches and by the cliffs of...
Janie Slaven: LIVING ON PURPOSE: A time for war and a time for peace
The Times-Tribune, Corbin, Ky. via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJun. 9—On June 6th, 1944, America under the guidance of General Dwight Eisenhower and its allies engaged in one of the most significant ...
Is there mail on Flag Day? What is Flag Day and why we celebrate it on June 14
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoAfter receiving a B- on it for having too many stars, he sent it to the White House. Two years later he received a call from President Dwight D.
A missile strike from Yemen's Houthi rebels sets a cargo ship on fire in Gulf of Aden
San Francisco Chronicle· 16 hours agoYemen's Houthi rebels launched two anti-ship cruise missiles and struck a commercial ship Thursday...
Today in History: ‘Under God’ added to the Pledge of Allegiance
Chicago Tribune· 10 hours agoOn June 14, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Lest we forget: Kansans gather to remember, honor D-Day, WWII soldiers
Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, Kan. via Yahoo News· 4 days agomarked the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. To remember Operation Overlord, several Kansas figures and the public gathered around the statue of ...
US Navy campaign against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels is its most intense since WWII
Anchorage Daily News· 2 hours agoThe U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and...
Photo shows aftermath of US ship fire in 1967, not Huthi attack
AFP via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA decades-old photo showing the damaged deck of the USS Forrestal has resurfaced in Chinese-language...