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About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...
"Indepedency," an exhibit with flags related to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, is at Southampton Arts Center through ...
ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) — 81 years ago, World War II allies invaded Normandy, liberating France and Western Europe, and laying the path to victory. “We came in on a landing craft with the front … ...
Learn how American inventions that helped the Allies invade Normandy on D-Day gave way to equipment being used decades later in modern combat.
Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore at Utah Beach, near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses on D-Day ...
Eighty-one years ago, the Normandy beaches witnessed a pivotal moment in World War II. D-Day marked the start of Operation Overlord. Allied forces from the US, UK, and Canada landed on five Normandy ...
The Normandy landings on D-Day -- June 6, 1944 -- began the end to World War II. The weather forecast was grim over the English Channel. American General Dwight Eisenhower was in his makeshift office ...
Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembered the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops at Utah Beach had to make in 3- to 4-foot waves, each carrying about 60 ...
Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembered the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops at Utah Beach had to make in 3- to 4-foot waves, each carrying about 60 ...
Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
"It’s hard to believe but I saw that beach bounce. I could just see it vibrating," said Don Buswell of Ogden, who was aboard a landing craft at Utah Beach on D-Day, in a 2005 interview with KUED.