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RAF Typhoon has D-Day anniversary makeover
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoThe Typhoon jet is seen mid-air for the first time since its new paint job - Alex ROEBUCK An RAF aircraft has taken to the skies with a new coat of paint...
80th anniversary of deadly D-Day rehearsal marked
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPoppy petals were dropped from a Wasp helicopter as part of the event [PA Media] A service to mark the 80th anniversary of a D-Day rehearsal exercise...
Service in Devon remembers D-Day rehearsal tragedy
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe vessels were heading from Lyme Bay to Slapton Sands when they were attacked during Exercise Tiger [BBC] A service has taken place to commemorate the...
D-Day veterans recall looking forward to cups of tea and bailing out of tanks
Press Association News via AOL· 6 days agoD-Day veterans have told children how they were “looking forward to cups of tea” after landing in...
Town where key D-Day decision made not lighting beacon
BBC via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe beacon on Dunstable Downs, has stood for decades and is lit to commemorate certain events [Getty...
Las Vegas veteran headed to Normandy, 80 years after D-Day
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 5 days agoThe last known D-Day veteran in Las Vegas will return to Normandy. Again. Five years ago, Onofrio...
D-Day TikTok star ‘Papa Jake’ was 15 when he enlisted
WJHL· 3 days agoWorld War II veteran Jake Larson, a 100-year-old American best known on social media under the name...
The D-Day miracle that you’ve never heard of
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoGeneral George Patton was always a man in a hurry. As a cavalryman who wore breeches long after horses were no longer on the front line, he wanted his...
100-year-old British D-Day veteran dies before he can honor fallen comrades one more time
WFLA· 7 days agoBritish army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore...
WWII veteran headed to Normandy, 80 years after D-Day
Stars and Stripes· 5 days agoThe last known D-Day veteran in Las Vegas will return to Normandy. Five years ago, Onofrio “No-No”...