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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· 9 hours agoAt the top of it all, there was only one supreme allied commander, a 53-year-old American general...
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 ...
Yemen's Houthi rebels launch 2 cruise missles and hit ship in Gulf of Aden, sparking blaze, US says
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoThe U.S. said Thursday that the Iranian-backed Houthis launched two anti-ship cruise missiles and...
Today in History: ‘Under God’ added to the Pledge of Allegiance
Chicago Tribune· 16 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
Tribune via AOL· 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 ...
'It was like finding gold for a girl who barely knew her dad': A Father's Day story
Chicago Sun-Times· 7 hours agoFrank R. Doubek died from an infection at age 46, four days after my third birthday, leaving behind...
The Last Good Republican
The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record· 21 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...
Yemen's Houthi rebels launch boat-borne bomb attack against Greek-owned ship in Red Sea
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoYemen's Houthi rebels launched a boat-borne bomb attack against a commercial ship in the Red Sea on...
US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels
San Francisco Chronicle· 4 hours agoThe U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and...