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Here Is The Original Associated Press Report From The D-Day Invasion
EDITOR'S NOTE:The newsflash came on a slip of paper in a red-and-white striped courier pouch: "EISENHOWERS HEADQUARTERS ANNOUNCES ALLIES LAND IN FRANCE."The Associated Press had some two dozen writers...
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This 97-Year-Old Man Created The D-Day Orders For All Of Occupied France
Seventy years after D-Day, 97-year-old Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac remembers the days leading up to the operation perfectly. He was, after all, the man responsible for creating the D-Day orders for the...
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Here’s The Gloomy German Report On The 'Scientifically Conducted' D-Day Invasion
While German propaganda claimed their military defeated the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion at Normandy, German military leaders recognized how much they had lost.In November, 1944, Commander-in-Chief...
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Here Is Reagan's Chilling Speech About The Soldiers Who Scaled Cliffs Under...
Today is the 70th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II, but a speech given on its 40th anniversary by President Ronald Reagan is one that everyone should hear.Standing on...
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Here's Eisenhower's Initial Report On The D-Day Invasion
Several hours into the D-Day invasion, General Eisenhower sent a cable about the apparent success of the operation back to the War Department in Washington. At the time, Eisenhower had scant details of...
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D-Day Veterans Return to Normandy, 70 Years Later [PHOTOS]
Seventy years ago, they were young men thrust into one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. Now in their late 80s and early 90s, the veterans of D-Day are living connections to the...
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93-Year-Old D-Day Vet Commemorates The Invasion's 70th Anniversary By...
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing, 93-year-old veteran Jim "Pee Wee" Martin parachuted down onto Utah Beach in a recreation of the same jump he took 70 years ago, Jim Bittermann...
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An 89-Year-Old British Veteran Escaped His Nursing Home To Attend D-Day...
An 89-year-old Second World War veteran told he could not attend today’s D-Day events in France went AWOL from his care home and was found 12 hours later in Normandy with comrades police have...
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Rising Sea Levels Are Exposing Bodies Of Buried WWII Soldiers
During United Nations-sponsored climate change talks in Germany, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands said 26 skeletons of World War II soldiers washed up after their graves were exposed by...
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The Story Of The Only American Soldier Executed For Desertion Since The Civil...
Former comrades of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl are accusing him of deserting his unit before his 5-year captivity by the Taliban. Recently released in a controversial prisoner swap, Bergdahl might...
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This Untranslatable Finnish Word Takes Perseverance To A Whole New Level
On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union declared war on Finland.The odds, you could say, were against the Scandinavian country. Only independent for 22 years, it had a total population of 4 million...
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Brad Pitt Returns To Killing Nazis In First Trailer For Movie 'Fury'
"I started this war killing Germans in Africa, now I'm killing Germans in Germany."After 2009's "Inglourious Basterds," Brad Pitt is back to killing Nazis in new movie "Fury," except this time it's a...
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The War Hero And Olympian Who Inspired 'Unbroken' Has Died At 97
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Louis Zamperini, an American prisoner of war in World War Two and Olympic runner whose life inspired the book and upcoming feature film "Unbroken," has died at age 97.Zamperini...
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This Never-Before-Seen WWII Document Offers An Inside Account Of An Elite...
American G.I. John Frankemolle was guarding a group of captured German soldiers in Europe during World War II when an intelligence officer handed him an interrogation of prisoner of war (IPW) report....
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How The Last Surviving Member Of The Enola Gay Justified Dropping The World’s...
Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk, the last living crew member of the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II, died Monday at his Georgia home at the age...
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A Soviet Conscript Who Was Captured By The Nazis Shares His WWII Experience...
A 94-year-old World War II veteran born in modern-day Armenia has started a Reddit AMA, with the help of his granddaughter, in which he provides a startling look at his time as a conscript in the...
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We Spoke To 2 Veterans Who Served In World War II As Teenagers — And Here's...
Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, just over a million are alive today, according to the National World War II Museum. Each day, 555 of them die.Business Insider recently spoke...
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Japan's Cabinet Reshuffle Could Cause Soaring Geopolitical Tensions
A cabinet reshuffle poses risks for Japan's ties with its neighbours.SHINZO ABE, Japan's prime minister, has reason to feel chuffed ahead of his first cabinet reshuffle on September 3rd. He has the...
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Germany Charges 93-Year-Old Death Camp Guard With 300,000 Counts Of Accessory...
BERLIN (AP) — A 93-year-old man has been charged with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp, prosecutors said Monday.Oskar Groening is...
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6 Mind-Blowing Tactical Tricks That Turned The Tide Of War
Technology and manpower never guarantee a military victory by themselves. And neither can tactics and strategy — sometimes, it takes an extra measure of trickery and subterfuge to swing the tide on the...
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