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Centenarian veterans are sharing their memories of D-Day, 80 years later
Sun-Sentinel· 1 hour agoSitting in a wheelchair in front of the graves of fallen comrades at the Normandy American Cemetery,...
A father’s Normandy memory: Amid the ‘thud, thud’ of bombs, he landed on Utah Beach - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 8 hours ago“I remember the ‘thud, thud’ as the concussion from the exploding shells was carried through the...
How the AP covered D-Day landings and lost photographer Bede Irvin in battle for Normandy
Dallas Morning News· 23 hours agoOn D-Day morning, June 6, 1944, AP had reporters, artists and photographers...
Tom Schaffer, paratrooper who was one of the last survivors of the Battle of the Bulge – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoTom Schaffer, who has died aged 97, was one of the last men surviving to have served in the 13th...
80 years after D-Day, the number of WWII veterans is dwindling
Post-Bulletin· 1 day 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 ...
Dutch F-35s Take On A Full Nuclear Role
THE WARZONE via Yahoo News· 5 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
WJTV Jackson· 6 days agoLONDON (AP) — What did you do in the war, Granny? For British women who came of age during World War...
Jürgen Moltmann, leading Protestant theologian who found God in a British prisoner-of-war camp –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoJürgen Moltmann, who has died aged 98, was the most significant Protestant theologian of the second...
Mansfield 100-year-old D-Day veteran recalls Normandy landings
BBC News· 2 days agoA 100-year-old World War Two veteran says he will "never forget" what he saw during the D-Day...