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D-Day 80th Anniversary: Your Guide To Commemorative Events In Normandy
Forbes· 3 days agoThe festival for the 80th anniversary of D-Day will take place from Pegasus Bridge to Sainte...all...
D-Day 80: Normandy veteran, 103, 'determined' to make event
BBC via Yahoo News· 7 days agoDon Sheppard, from Basildon, who is Essex's oldest Normandy veteran, fought on the beaches on 6 June...
Normandy veterans share ‘bit of living history’ ahead of D-Day anniversary
Press Association News via AOL· 3 days agoMr Aldred, 99, who served as a tank driver and landed on Gold Beach in Normandy the day after D-Day
100-year-old British D-Day veteran dies before he can honor fallen comrades one more time
KTHV Little Rock· 4 days agoAlthough weakened by cancer, Gladden had been determined to make it back to Normandy to take part in...
Las Vegas veteran headed to Normandy, 80 years after D-Day
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 2 days agoHe returned to Normandy in 2019 for the 75th commemoration of the battle. “Last time was...
Service in Devon remembers D-Day rehearsal tragedy
BBC via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoIn 1944, 639 American soldiers and sailors died...vessels were attacked by German E-boats during a rehearsal for the Normandy landings. The service took...
80th anniversary of deadly D-Day rehearsal marked
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoSlapton Sands was used for various D-Day rehearsals because of its geographical similarities to Utah Beach in Normandy
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...
D-Day veterans recall looking forward to cups of tea and bailing out of tanks
Press Association News via AOL· 3 days agoHe said: “You all stick together like glue and the main thing is ‘how soon can I have a cup of tea...
Key Battleship Texas items part of global D-Day celebrations
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoOne of them was the Battleship Texas, which was to play a key role in Operation...amphibious...