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‘What they left behind’: Ernie Pyle recalls the carnage of Omaha Beach
Military Times via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoThen they had hidden machine-gun nests on the forward slopes, with crossfire taking in every inch of...
The 4 most dangerous missions American troops carried out 80 years ago on D-Day
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoTheir mission: Scale the 100-foot rock and upon reaching the cliff top, destroy key German gun...
‘It feels very lonely’: 80 years after D-Day, only 2 USS Nevada crew members remain
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 7 hours ago“It made it very hot,” he said. Pilots from spotter planes would fly inland, view...
‘The first wave went through hell:’ The 16th Infantry Regiment’s role in victory on D-Day
South Carolina Daily Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoAmong the many Allied military units storming the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, was the 16th...
The first American on the beach at D-Day served through the Vietnam War
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoWhen the doors fell down, Schroeder took a step onto the beach and became the first Allied soldier...
A toy gun, a handgun, a teen possibly paralyzed. What happened outside Goddard Walmart?
Wichita Eagle via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoSenior assassin is a game students at Goddard High School play where they shoot each other with ...
Atlanta man sentenced for deadly shooting over water bottle sales territory
WAGA fox local articles via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoProsecutors say things turned south when Pless was given $10 for a bottle of water. Anderson turned...
3 unsung World War II woman spies who helped make D-Day an Allied victory
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoShe fled to the south and then to London. When the SOE started recruiting multilingual women as...
Ohio D-Day veterans recall the invasion that changed the world 80 years later
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoArmy on D-Day "I thought it was as much my fight as it was his," a now-104-year-old Hill said in a...
A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoOn June 19, five of Capa’s images graced the pages of Life magazine, bringing the invasion home to...