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Recognizing, celebrating 'Our Boys' this D-Day
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoThey believed the fate of the free world was at stake. It was. The debt we owe them can never be paid. From France they powered into Germany as the...
D-Day 80th anniversary: Survivors, leaders meet in Normandy
WSB Radio· 17 minutes agoThe surviving veterans of D-Day, most in wheelchairs, were again in Normandy on Thursday, as they...
80 years later, memories of D-Day invasion, sacrifice remain strong
New Hampshire Union Leader· 14 hours agoArmy Air Corps, had a sense something major was coming. Based in Bournemouth, England, he and a crew...
On 80th anniversary of D-Day, Delaware WWII veteran recalls his mission with 'ghost army'
Delaware Online | The News Journal via Yahoo News· 2 hours ago-Day? On D-Day June 6, 1944, Anderson's unit set up the ghost army in England to make the Allied...
Recognizing D-Day sacrifices for representative democracy, as America faces a new reckoning
Ohio Capital Journal via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoEighty years ago today, in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, the largest invasion fleet in...
‘Papa Jake’ among the centenarian veterans sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
19 Action News Cleveland· 14 hours agoWorld War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark...
Dutch F-35s Take On A Full Nuclear Role
THE WARZONE via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA Dutch F-16 Fighting...the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in England will also have a nuclear mission reinstated, the last nuclear bombs having...
Women were barred from combat during WWII. But they helped ensure the Allies' D-Day success
U-T San Diego· 6 days agoOften overlooked, their contributions have come into sharper focus as the number of living D-Day veterans dwindles and the world prepares for the 80th anniversary of the landings. One of those ...
A father’s Normandy memory: Amid the ‘thud, thud’ of bombs, he landed on Utah Beach - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 1 day ago“I remember the ‘thud, thud’ as the concussion from the exploding shells was carried through the...
80 years after D-Day, the number of WWII veterans is dwindling
Post-Bulletin· 2 days ago"When I was born in September 1943, he was in England and part of the group that was doing training for what eventually became June 6, 1944," Williams said of his uncle, by ...