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A figure who worked in the shadows on D-Day awarded France's highest honor
WFTV 9 Orlando· 2 hours agoVER-SUR-MER, France — (AP) — Eighty years after Christian Lamb helped rescue France from Nazi...
D-Day anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans and shadowed by Europe's new war
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 hours agoThe war in Ukraine shadowed the ceremonies in Normandy, a grim modern-day example of lives and...
'Europe in miniature': Welcome to Baarle, world's strangest border
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoIf ever a place encapsulated the glorious complexity and sometimes paradoxical nature of the ...
Macron presents Légion d’honneur to 104-year-old Wren officer who plotted D-Day landings
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoHer task was to assist the preparations for the operation for the Allied invasion of Europe that...
Cotswolds town played 'top secret' role in D-Day
BBC via AOL· 15 hours agoD-Day was the largest military naval, air and land operation ever attempted, and marked the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-occupied north-west ...
Putin's TV airs map of Russia within reach of Ukraine's new weapons
Newsweek· 2 days agoA Russian state TV presenter aired a map of Russia showing areas that she said Ukraine could...
On This Day, June 6: Allies invade Nazi-occupied Europe on D-Day
UPI· 13 hours agoOn June 6, 1944, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops began crossing the English Channel in the...
How a World War II Escape Map Found a Second Use as a Ladies Garment
Smithsonian Magazine· 1 day agoWhen Ted Maxwell was a young boy in the 1950s, he remembers his mother, Bernice Allen Maxwell, wearing a distinctive blouse. Made from richly printed silk, the blouse resembled a map ...
Is Russia fighting a 'sabotage' war in Europe?
The Week via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPhoto composite of Vladimir Putin, a map of Europe covered in target symbols, and the fire damaged Diehl Metall factory. European security ...
Pronatalists stir controversy in era of falling birth rates
The Week via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoPhoto collage of babies, chromosomes, a placenta, ultrasound scan and a map of the world. Malcolm...