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Tonight, Jean Mackin introduces us to some local high school students who traveled to see the beaches of Normandy, France ...
Tom McDade may not have been the only D-Day veteran in Park Forest, but his heart never left the community he helped create.
Stacker compiled a list of 50 facts and figures that defined D-Day, using resources like the D-Day Center and the Department ...
OMAHA BEACH, France ... the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American young men were cut down 80 years ago on D-Day. Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians ...
Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an easy daytrip that's especially popular with travelers interested in seeing Monet's house and gardens or the D-Day Beaches. But if you only ...
“It was scary going into the unknown,” said McNamara, who led a six-man detachment onto Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion of Normandy ... the decorated World War II veteran died at his ...
Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy ... for the eventual landings at ...
Tucsonan Jeannie Tucker was stunned when she saw an old photo for sale on eBay of her father showing her and her mother a map of Omaha Beach where ... of France in World War II.
Normandy is a region in France that truly has it all – dramatic coastlines, charming villages, fascinating cities, and a ...
It is disquieting to recall the moving ceremony on the beaches of Normandy that marked the 80th ... the values for which America fought in World War II, seems plausible over the medium term.
Nearly eight decades after the end of World War II, paratroopers ... nations who flocked to Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. They even stopped off at Utah Beach to visit Le Roosevelt ...
World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of ...