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A 99-year-old D-Day veteran had a prime position ... was just 20 when he landed on Sword Beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944. 'There were thousands and thousands of ships on either side of us ...
Tom Berry was a teenager when he joined the Royal Navy as a radio operator on the Tribal-class destroyer HMS Tartar.
Former Schreiber High School dean Al Whitney would have turned 100 on April 26, former students remembered his impact on the ...
Major General Ray Shields, the adjutant general of New York, will mark the end of World War II in Europe as the New York ...
the 1944 Normandy landings. The design concept behind these new amphibious barges harkens back to the Mulberry harbors, temporary floating structures used by Allied forces during the D-Day landings.
Georgina Turnbull pulls a black-and-white photograph out of her carrier bag and carefully removes it from a wooden frame.
The liberation of Europe, when it finally came, was a momentous task consuming the energies of millions of men and women. The ...
On D-Day Nurse Joyce Dandridge from Wooburn was waiting anxiously in a train in a railway siding somewhere on the south coast. It was no ordinary train, having been converted to an ambulance train.
Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day.
the Allies planned Exercise Tiger to practise their landing on France's Normandy beaches ahead of D-Day. During the rehearsal, a German fleet attacked, sinking two allied ships. Around 749 US ...
Ships unloaded at large steel pier heads ... twice as many bombs on the Pas de Calais as they did on Normandy. Even on D-Day itself, Allied planes dropped dummy paratroopers and tin foil to ...