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This year marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day when, on June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed in Normandy by sea and air. It was an unprecedented military operation in which men and machines began the ...
A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. The company disembarked from their landing craft at around 7 a.m ...
Steven Melnikoff, 104, and Donald Cobb, 99, are veterans of the DDAY invasion, and they're returning to France for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied attack on the ...
Coventry's D-Day heroes will be honoured at Coventry Cathedral ... To commemorate the regiment’s role 80 years ago, the Fusiliers Museum will host a talk that maps their progress using drones ...
Across the channel in France, hundreds of paratroopers landed on the fields of Normandy, recreating a jump made in the dead of night 80 years earlier ... one in which D-Day veterans will be ...
On D-Day, 34-year-old U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton was part of the second wave of the invasion on Omaha Beach and exited the landing craft at about 7 a.m. He was last seen wading ashore but was ...