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Meet the Navy veteran who hit the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, and...
As a Navy coxswain, Julius Shoulars spent nearly a month on Omaha Beach after the D-Day landings, directing landing craft and burying the dead.After his time in the European theater, Shoulars...
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5 legendary speeches delivered on D-Day's blood-stained battlefields and...
Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion— one of the biggest moments in World War II and a turning point in the fight against Nazi Germany. On June 6, 1944, roughly 160,000 troops...
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Trump calls Pelosi 'Nervous Nancy' before a somber D-Day commemoration in...
President Donald Trump took a shot at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a Fox News interview in Normany, France on Thursday shortly before he attended a commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day....
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'We were sitting ducks': One of the last living D-Day veterans recalls the...
Seventy-five years after the D-Day landings, the number of veterans who took part in the invasion is dwindling.Retired Army Col. George Westlake, 100, is one of them, reaching the Normandy coast in the...
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Here are US World War II soldiers' uncensored opinions about the military and...
During World War II, over a half-million service members filled out surveys or were interviewed by US Army researchers.The resulting surveys indicated that US troops wanted the Army to be a more...
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'We were sitting ducks': One of the last living D-Day veterans recalls the...
Seventy-five years after the D-Day landings, the number of veterans who took part in the invasion is dwindling.Retired Army Col. George Westlake, 100, is one of them, reaching the Normandy coast in the...
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The story behind 97-year-old Tom Rice's D-Day 75th anniversary parachute jump...
At an airshow in California in late 2018, two retired lieutenant colonels came up with the idea to recreate the D-Day parachute jump over France.After eight months of rigorous training, their team of...
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A 101-year-old WWII veteran commissioned his grandson into the Air Force, and...
Each graduating cadet at the US Air Force Academy takes their oath and gets their new rank pinned on, often by a member of their family.Newly commissioned 2nd Lt. Joseph Kloc was given his oath by his...
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A 94-year-old who missed his graduation to go fight in WWII finally got his...
William Wagner, a 94-year-old Chicago native and World War II veteran, graduated with the Class of 2019 at Tilden High School on Thursday.He joined the Navy in June 1943, missing his graduation day in...
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It's been 75 years since D-Day: Here's how the Allies began to reclaim Europe...
2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.On June 6, 1944, Allied forces...
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A 94-year-old who missed his graduation to go fight in WWII finally got his...
William Wagner, a 94-year-old Chicago native and World War II veteran, graduated with the Class of 2019 at Tilden High School on Thursday.He joined the Navy in June 1943, missing his graduation day in...
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A Virginia National Guard sergeant is accused of stealing WWII dog tags from...
A Virginia man has been accused of taking dog tags from the National Archives and giving them to family members and others.A French historian was sentenced in April 2018 to one year in prison after...
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One of the last original members of the Tuskegee Airmen has died at 99
Robert Friend, one of the last original members of the famed all-black Tuskegee Airmen, died on Friday.Friend, 99, flew 142 combat missions during World War II and later served in the Korean and...
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A World War II-era bomb detonated in Germany over the weekend, creating a...
An explosion shook the town of Ahlbach, Germany early Sunday morning.Experts later determined that it was likely a World War II-era bomb that detonated.In a statement about the incident, town officials...
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This year's commemoration of the D-Day obscured the real cost of winning WWII...
Leaders of Western countries gathered in Europe this month for a poignant and heartfelt ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.But the commemoration reflected a habit of obscuring...
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The graves of 30 US Marines and sailors were found on the site of one of...
A nonprofit organization has found the remains of more than 30 Marines and sailors killed in 1943 on the Pacific island of Tarawa.Tarawa was the site of one of World War II's bloodiest battles, with...
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Hundreds of scholars called on Holocaust museum in DC to stop rejecting...
Hundreds of scholars have signed a letter calling for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. to retract its June 24 statement rejecting comparisons between the conditions of migrant...
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A 95-year-old WWII veteran is running coast-to-coast for the 2nd time to...
World War II Navy veteran Ernie Andrus trekked from California to Georgia between 2013 and 2016 to raise money for the LST 325 Ship Memorial.He started a second trip across the country in March, and...
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The battle of Saipan ended 75 years ago — here's how one Marine there...
Born into a Mexican family in California, Guy Gabaldon went to live with a Japanese family several years before WWII forced them into an internment camp.On his own, Gabaldon eventually joined the US...
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'The most intimidating minute I have ever spent': The first nuclear weapon...
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m., the first nuclear weapon test in history was conducted near Socorro, New Mexico.For years a team of some of the world's greatest scientists had labored in secret to make...
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