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Mourners gather for funeral of D-Day veteran, 97
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWilliam Tolley joined the armed forces as a young man [BBC] Mourners gathered in Yeovil on Friday afternoon for the funeral of a 97-year-old D-Day...
100-year-old British D-Day veteran dies before he can honor fallen comrades one more time
Courthouse News Service· 5 days agoBritish army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore...
D-Day hero Harry Howarth dies at 103 just weeks before anniversary of landing
Daily Express· 7 days agoNearly 25,000 men stormed Gold beach on D-Day with the objective of capturing the town of Bayeux and...
British D-Day veteran dies before he can honor fallen comrades
The Florence Times-Daily· 4 days agoLONDON — British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that...
WWII veteran headed to Normandy, 80 years after D-Day
Stars and Stripes· 2 days agoThe last known D-Day veteran in Las Vegas will return to Normandy. Five years ago, Onofrio “No-No”...
HMS Cattistock: Navy warship granted Freedom of Poole
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoHe said: "In 1944 an earlier ship of the same name protected minesweepers in the days and hours...
‘The heroes are all buried over there:’ WWII veteran on D-Day invasion
FOX 23 News Albany· 5 days agoIt’s been almost 80 years since U.S. troops took part in the largest invasion in U.S. history. There...
Remembering Lehigh Valley residents who died during D-Day rehearsal
The Morning Call· 22 hours agoForty-four service members from Pennsylvania lost their lives in the sinking of LST-507 and LST-531...
What’s on TV tonight: Miriam: Death of a Reality Star, Jamie Cooks Spring and more
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoMiriam: Death of a Reality Star Channel 4, 9pm “Surely somebody, somewhere could see that this was a...
Typhoon repainted to mark 80 years since D-Day
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe RAF's display Typhoon has been repainted with a mid-war day fighter scheme [BBC] The RAF's display Typhoon has been repainted to mark 80 years since...