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Normandy churches honor D-Day paratroopers as biblical heroes in stained-glass windows
Fox News· 1 day ago"For me, when they landed, they were like heroes in a movie," Paul Renaud, a 14-year-old resident of...
For the First French Town Liberated on D-Day, History Is Personal
New York Times· 13 hours agoHere is Ste.-Mère-Église, a slip of a town in northwest Normandy with one main street. Four hours...
Eisenhower statue unveiled at one of first villages liberated by Allied troops in France
Stars and Stripes· 4 days agoSAINTE-MÈRE-ÉGLISE, France — American military leaders past and present were on hand Monday to...
‘An excessive amount of slaughter’: What The Longest Day got right – and wrong – about D-Day
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 day agoFor producer Darryl F. Zanuck, The Longest Day was a matter of victory or defeat. “Either I will go...
King Charles III honors a generation that fought, died and waited for freedom
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoVER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — King Charles III came to northern France on Thursday to honor the 22,442...
What Ike Remembered When Returning to the Beaches of Normandy 20 Years After D-Day
Military.com via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division tried to...
82nd Airborne Division inducts 2024 Hall of Fame paratroopers
Army Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTurnbull’s unit was under Nazi fire for several hours and managed to secure Sainte-Mère-Église, but...
Ukraine’s D-Day: How will our decisions be viewed 80 years from now?
The Hill· 1 day agoOn D-Day, 133,000 men from the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada and France bravely answered that...
Sarasota choir performing at D-Day 80th-anniversary in Normandy
WTSP-TV Tampa· 2 days agoThursday, June 6 marks 80 years since the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. Thousands will...
The Presidential Pilgrimage to Normandy | RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics· 2 days agoBeing assigned to cover the president of the United States was once the pinnacle for American...