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A small town in Normandy, France, is honoring the sacrifice of the 28th Division this weekend. Nine soldiers were killed in ...
The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 ...
The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...
The story began in France, just after the D-Day invasion, in June 1944. My father, Lt. Donald Johnson, was a Seabee, a civil ...
Just a few weeks ago, standing on a bluff overlooking Omaha, the wide beach, just as Dad had described, lay below.
D-Day: Huge invasion ... Canadian and Free French airborne troops shortly after midnight, and an amphibious landing of Allied infantry and armoured divisions on the coast of France commencing ...
There, every person has a story, a collective thread, which ties them to not only D-Day but the days that followed. St. Lô, known for a long time as the “Capital of Ruins,” was liberated a ...
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.
Nice is one of my favorite cities in all of France and the French Riviera is delightful ... des Anglais and towers over Old Town and the coast. Even though the original castle isn’t there ...
Normandy is a region in France that truly has it all – dramatic coastlines, charming villages, fascinating cities, and a ...
The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ...