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Shapps: Shortage of planes for D-Day commemoration underlines need for more cash
Press Association News via AOL· 2 days agoHundreds of paratroopers had been expected to jump into Normandy to honour the actions of their...
A jacket, a coin, a letter: Relics of Omaha Beach tell the D-Day story
Military Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWithin the military...military history, several artifacts collected over the decades help tell the...
How the Gaza humanitarian aid pier traces its origins to discarded cigar boxes before World War II
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoSource: Seabee Museum. Seabee Museum Pontoon highways at Normandy Much like Sicily, the Normandy...
Remembering a Minnesotan who stormed the beach on D-Day 80 years ago
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune· 2 days agoOne day when he was about 8 years old, Bill Heaney was hanging out with his father in the toolshed...
Five questions for the 82nd Airborne Division’s commanding general
Army Times via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA number of us are going to be there, and I’m very much looking forward to it. The 160,000 Allied...
Tom Archdeacon: Springfield veteran racks up honors as he nears 100
Dayton Daily News, Ohio via Yahoo News· 1 day agoMay 19—SPRINGFIELD — On Memorial Day, when the Cincinnati Reds honor Walter Stitt during a game with the St. Louis Cardinals, the 99-year-old World War II veteran from Springfield ...
Honoring the extraordinary legacy of Army Brigadier General Thomas Carroll
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIt was overwhelming.” The pain was indescribable, she added. Oneday someone asked if it hurt so...
101-year-old World War II veteran from Pennsylvania receives France’s highest honor
Stars and Stripes· 5 days agoA 101-year-old from Linfield, a thrice-wounded veteran of some of World War II’s most famous and deadliest battles, has received France’s highest honor — the Legion of Honor — from the French ...
The border executive order(s) are coming
Politico· 3 days ago“We would defer to the government of France, which organizes the commemoration at Normandy,” one official said. “But perhaps this will remind the Russians that they actually ...
