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August 8, 1944, one of the most dramatic days of the Normandy campaign. In this explosive episode, German Yagpanzer crews ...
When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just ...
Perfect for those interested in World War II, German armored divisions, and the role of Waffen SS in Normandy 1944.
Learn how American inventions that helped the Allies invade Normandy on D-Day gave way to equipment being used decades later in modern combat.
At the Normandy American Cemetery, nearly 9,400 white marble headstones stretch across a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach, marking the final resting place of those killed during the Normandy campaign.
As Marc Milner reminds us in “Second Front,” his enlightening study of Anglo-American relations during the 1944 Normandy campaign, contempt for the British was so deeply rooted in the American ...
British Normandy campaign veteran George Chandler, shown here in June, of the Royal Navy speaks has died. He was 99 years old. (/Alastair Grant/AP) LONDON — D-Day veteran George Chandler, who ...
To put it in context, this was more than the German losses in the entire Normandy campaign (240,000 casualties, 210,000 captured, 1,500 tanks and 20,000 vehicles destroyed).
Many years ago, a friend and I visited the five beaches on France’s Normandy coast where allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to launch the combined ...
In 1923 Congress established the building of the Normandy American Cemetery, and the Museum which has displays of D-Day information, the Normandy Campaign, and Omaha Beach.
With this movement, the Normandy Campaign concluded as the Allied forces sought to free northern France and Paris. Today, D-Day remains a day of remembrance.
For survivors of the Normandy campaign from the Philadelphia area headed back to France, the week has been filled with excitement, tears and most of all, gratitude.