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‘What they left behind’: Ernie Pyle recalls the carnage of Omaha Beach
Military Times via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoIn the water floated empty life rafts and soldiers’ packs and ration boxes, and mysterious oranges....
A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Military Times via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoWe carried a loaded M-1 rifle, 156 more rounds of ammunition, a pistol with three loaded clips, an...
New book shines a light on Ireland’s nurses in the Second World War
Press Association News via AOL· 2 days agoA new book has shone a light on the contribution of nurses from across Ireland working in dangerous...
Biden will praise men like his uncles when he commemorates D-Day
Military Times via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoTranslation: He had been tasked with supporting Reld in the squadron mess office, possibly...
Pat Owtram used her language skills to listen in on German U-boats during WWII
KAMR Amarillo· 7 days agoLONDON (AP) — Pat Owtram didn’t need to go to war. It came to her. As the Nazis took control of...
A Passion for History
The Post-Journal· 6 days agoThe first thing one notices is a grandfather clock, made in 1941 by his maternal grandfather Karl E. Spear, who resided and owned many businesses in...
Jewish veteran from London prepares to commemorate 80th anniversary of D-Day landings
Roanoke Times· 2 days agoEven as he prepared to embark for the battlefields of Normandy, Pvt. Mervyn Kersh was summoned by...
A Girls’ Trip to Costa Rica. But With No Phones, Did It Happen?
New York Times· 1 day agoTravelers are signing up for phone-free tours, to try to escape technology’s tether on daily life....
Evil cat stays for the weekend
Kyrie Gray via Yahoo News· 3 days agoCats can be very difficult. They are especially hard to cat-sit for when they do not want to be away from home. Watching this cat made me wonder if there...
