D-Day

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• SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  7/8/2021
  

  Obituary: Henry Parham, Last of A Black Unit that Fought at D-Day, Dies at 99

  “'We landed in water up to our necks,' Mr. Parham said, recalling a shorter man in his unit who had to be carried onto the beach because the water was over his head and he couldn’t swim."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  He Saved Scores of Lives on D-Day. Lawmakers Say He Was Passed Over for the Medal of Honor Because He Was Black

  The late Waverly Woodson is one of an untold number of Black service members passed over for the Medal of Honor whose cases have received renewed attention decades later, as their families and historians try to correct a historical record in which the contributions of Black service members are often left out.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  6/9/2019
  

  His grandfather's war: David Eisenhower on the general and D-Day

  David Eisenhower's grandfather commanded the greatest military operation of history's most terrible war.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  6/3/19
  

  The Invention That Won World War II

  by David Kindy

  Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults that was vital to victory on D-Day. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/19
  

  What D-Day teaches us about the difficulty — and importance — of resistance

  by Sonia Purnell

  For four years, a few French citizens fought a losing battle. Then they won.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  6/6/19
  

  Hitler told the world the Third Reich was invincible. My German grandfather knew better

  by Robert Scott Kellner

  As a political organizer for the Social Democrats, Kellner had opposed the Nazis from the beginning, campaigning against them throughout the duration of the ill-fated Weimar Republic. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/6/19
  

  Trump and world leaders remember D-Day

  Dozens of American veterans of D-Day were among other veterans and their families on a stage erected within the semicircular stone memorial at the Normandy American Cemetery.

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• SOURCE: Fox
  6/2/19
  

  Video of the Week: Remembering D-Day 75th Anniversary Special

  June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings and the beginning of the Battle for Normandy.

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• 6/6/19
  

  Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again

  by Kevin Kennedy

  The successful Allied landings in Normandy accelerated Germany’s defeat, but they didn’t bring it about.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  6/4/2019
  

  Native Americans' D-Day stories come to light

  For Charles Norman Shay, commemorating his people's sacrifice will never replace the friends he lost on D-Day.

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• SOURCE: Greenwich Time
  6/5/2019
  

  Russia says D-Day memorials are part of a 'false' history of World War II meant to airbrush out the Soviet Union

  Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said the events commemorating the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of France were painting a "false" picture of who was responsible for winning World War II.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  6/3/19
  

  How Many Were Killed on D-Day?

  Days before the invasion, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was told by a top strategist that paratrooper casualties alone could be as high as 75 percent.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/3/19
  

  D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbours

  by Colin Flint

  When Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 – a bold invasion of Nazi-held territory that helped tip the balance of World War II – they were using a remarkable and entirely untested technology: artificial ports.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/2/19
  

  D-Day’s 24 hours changed 20th century, and Europe, forever

  International leaders will gather again this week to honor the dwindling number of D-Day veterans.

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• SOURCE: Time
  6/4/19
  

  He Served With D-Day’s Only African-American Combat Unit. His Widow Is Still Fighting for His Medal of Honor

  Waverly Woodson died in 2005 but his widow, Joann Woodson, who turned 90 on May 26, has made it her mission to see that her husband’s heroism is acknowledged.

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• SOURCE: Capital Gazette
  6/2/19
  

  'I'd like to volunteer, sir': 75 years after D-Day, memories live on through oral histories

  Seventy-five years later, the ranks have thinned of those who braved machine gun fire on French beaches that were marked on their maps with American names like Utah and Omaha.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/2/19
  

  One of D-Day’s most famous, heroic assaults may have been unnecessary

  Pointe du Hoc’s importance as a military objective has become the subject of heated debate as the 75th anniversary of the invasion approaches.

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• 6/2/19
  

  D-Day 75 Years Later and the Quest for Peace

  by William Lambers

  American and allied soldiers lost their lives on D-Day so that others may live free. The best way to honor D-Day veteran’s sacrifice is to work for that elusive, but achievable eternal world peace. 

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• 6/2/19
  

  Remembering Rome's Liberation

  by Gregory Sumner

  Amid the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, it is important to note, too, the anniversary of an event that unfolded just two days earlier: the Allied liberation of Rome. 

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• SOURCE: ACME Specialist Whistles
  5/30/2019
  

  The Lost Clickers of D-Day

  Join The Search For The Lost D-Day Landing Clickers