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D-Day - latest: Veterans and world leaders mark 80 years since landings as Putin not invited to...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 18 minutes agoHe said: “Each of you who contributed that day - sailor, soldier, aviator, civilian - whether you...
‘Back in time’: House lawmakers parachuting from WWII-era plane in Normandy to mark D-Day
Fox News· 55 minutes agoThe 10 legislators – nine Republicans and one Democrat, all veterans of the armed forces – will don...
Charlie Audet, WWII veteran of historic combat parachute battalion, dies at 105 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 10 hours agoAudet, a Tech 5 by war’s end, said in the Veterans History interview. Mr. Audet, who was believed to...
Meet five men with Augusta-area connections who forged historic, heroic ties to D-Day
The Augusta Chronicle via Yahoo News· 49 minutes agoBut after World War II broke out, for higher monthly pay he enlisted in the Canadian military and...
Paratroopers and drone show mark D-Day 80th anniversary
BBC News· 10 hours agoIn Portsmouth in England, King Charles called on people to live up to the freedom that Allied...
80 years ago, on the beaches of Normandy, WWII shifted course: Here's how D-Day unfolded
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoIts success heralded the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe...troops landed by sea on...
Remembering D-Day: Army vet to parachute into Normandy to mark invasion's 80th anniversary
Gannett via AOL· 24 hours agoHe later fought in the Persian Gulf War and became a sergeant before he left the military in 1991....
Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion
Chicago Tribune· 9 hours agoThe June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity,...
Reenacting U.S. paratroopers' D-Day plunge into Normandy, 80 years later
CBS News via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoparachute deployed violently, but I nailed the landing, inside the drop zone, finally. I had earned...
King arrives at commemorative event in Normandy on D-Day 80th anniversary
Press Association News via AOL· 9 minutes agoAt the same time, an RAF band performed a marching display while Dakota military transport aircraft,...