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US congressmen make Normandy jump | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 2 days agoA contingent of U.S. lawmakers from the House of Representatives made a commemorative parachute jump...
Family shares story of late Navy Seabee who was at Normandy
WPRI Providence· 5 days agoBill Walsh enlisted in the Seabees in 1942, working in wartime construction throughout several...
80 years after D-Day, one of the men who helped prepare for the invasion tells his story
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAgain, he didn’t know why. He boarded a landing ship full of trucks and laid in the back of a...
In France, D-Day evokes joys of liberation and pain of Normandy's 20,000 civilian dead
The Post and Courier· 4 days agoSome 20,000 Normandy civilians were killed in the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion and as the landing...
Ohio D-Day veterans recall the invasion that changed the world 80 years later
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 4 days agoLawrence McCauley Lawrence McCauley, who died in 2023...seeing his friend’s face sink beneath the...
D-Day 80th anniversary: Survivors, leaders meet in Normandy
WSB-TV 2 Atlanta· 4 days agoThe surviving veterans of D-Day, most in wheelchairs, were again in Normandy on Thursday, as they...
World War II veteran marries his bride near Normandy's D-Day beaches. He's 100, she's 96
The Daily News· 2 days agoOn her way into the nuptials, the bubbly bride-to-be said: "It's not just for young people, love,...
France enlists ‘dengue detectives’ to prevent outbreak at the Paris Olympics
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoKevin Meignan crouches down and rustles inside a bush a stone’s throw from the towering Stade de...
D-Day veteran recalls first learning of invasion as he made his way to beaches
Press Association News via AOL· 5 days ago“The Canadian driver drove forward a couple of yards and hit...effect of bombs having been dropped...
Revisiting history: Camp Gordon Johnston trained infantry for D-Day invasion
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJohn E. Mellen, who commanded the 818th Amphibious Truck Company and was with them from their...