D-Day In 9 Maps: How Allies Stormed Normandy Beaches
Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and tanks in history was launched.
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Lehigh Valley veteran, one of last survivors who stormed the beaches on D-Day, dies at 102
World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...
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In Normandy, a Jewish veteran buried in a Nazi mass grave will receive a proper burial 80 years later
Nathan Baskind was killed in action shortly after D-Day. A year-long investigation found his remains and ensured his reinterment under a Star of David. Growing up, Samantha Baskind’s father ...
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'I was talking to history.' World War II veteran and Berkshire Place resident recalls what is was like to storm the beaches of Normandy
At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...
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On the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, Native Americans Remember Veterans’ Service and Sacrifices
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World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion
Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France ... advance upon the beaches of France in the wake of the Stars and Stripes, on D-Day. General Dwight Eisenhower gives the order of the day ...
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80m D-Day diorama made entirely of yarn headed to Norwich
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Local WWII veteran, D-Day survivor Richard Schermerhorn dies at 102
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Local World War II veteran Richard Schermerhorn, who landed on a Normandy beach during the D-Day invasion in 1944, has died at the age of 102.