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World War II veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary of D-Day
Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II ...
What is D-Day? How the Normandy landings led to Germany’s defeat in World War II
Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
History Today: When the evacuation at Dunkirk during World War II came to an end
More than 338,000 soldiers of the Allied Forces were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk in France on June 4, 1940, making ...
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World War II veteran identified and buried 81 years after being killed in action
Eighty-one years after being killed in action during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, Private Rodger Andrews was buried at ...
'I felt for those soldiers': Veteran, 100, recalls D-Day 81 years later
Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops ...
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From Purple Heart Lane to Hell’s Corner: 101st Airborne soldiers ride WWII convoy through Normandy
CARENTAN, France — In an open 1940s military vehicle rumbling through the Normandy countryside, Staff Sgt. Nathan Selby and ...
‘A trip of a lifetime:’ Fallen American soldiers honored in French ceremony
Shaun Nadolny is finally making the trip from Wisconsin to visit his great-uncle’s grave in the Brittany American Cemetery in ...
WWII vets are rock stars in France as they hand over the duty of remembering D-Day
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much ...
SC family lost 3 on same day in Normandy invasion. Their sacrifices are remembered 81 years later.
Neil Smoak has spent his life studying his family, including three Smoak men from Colleton County who died June 9, 1944, during the Normandy invasion.