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THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.
The route took me from beach to clifftop and back again, through quiet villages to the sobering Normandy American Cemetery, where 9,000 US soldiers are buried. The next morning, I continued ...
Battleship Texas is hosting tours in May and June based around the ship's role in helping Allied soldiers in the Normandy ...
American P-47 Thunderbolts launched a critical strike over German supply routes in France. As they dropped bombs and launched ...
CLINTON, Iowa — A Clinton native who parachuted into Normandy during World War II has died at the age of ... Langrehr was preparing to jump onto the beaches of Normandy. Just 19 years old ...
A brave young man from Crewe had one hell of a secret to keep during World War II and it was no ordinary secret but frontline ...
The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would ...
As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, World War II survivors reflect on ...
Using stirring musical moments, songs of the era sung by Broadway stars, personal accounts and archival photos and film of ...
Canada’s newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney was set to meet Tuesday with President Donald Trump amid major tensions over the trade war and Trump’s push to annex the northern neighbor as a 51st ...