Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 07:26:58 +0000
Make-believe pilots in faded flight suits. Men in steel helmets, driving lovingly restored jeeps. Women dressed as French resistance fighters or wartime factory workers.
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On June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops invaded the northern French coast, marking the start of France’s liberation from its Nazi occupiers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2019 02:56:04 +0000
World leaders will gather in solemn assembly next week above the sandy beaches of Normandy to mark the 75th anniversary of the world-changing D-Day invasion of France.
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An ever-smaller number of veterans will stand on Normandy’s shores on June 6 for D-Day’s 75th anniversary. Many will salute fallen comrades from their wheelchairs. As each year passes, more firsthand history is lost.
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For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred. On Tuesday, the military man would have his identity recovered — and be reunited with his twin brother in Normandy, where the two Navy men died together when their ship shattered on an underwater mine while trying to reach the blood-soaked D-Day beaches.
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