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A Des Moines Register story from 1944 reports that Cpl. John J. Marshall, an East High School graduate, is missing in action after parachuting behind the German lines in Normandy, France, on D-Day.
A D-Day veteran who served as a torpedo boat gunner escorting American forces has died at the age of 99. George Chandler, from Burgess Hill, West Sussex, who lost his sight in later life, was to ...
The King and Queen have hosted four D-Day veterans at Buckingham Palace, hearing moving personal stories and seeing their poignant keepsakes, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings.
Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day (after the military term), it is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France , and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front .
An American Airlines D-Day Honor Flight that returned Saturday from France took 68 veterans back to Normandy for the anniversary. The youngest person in that cohort was 98, the oldest was 107.
National D-Day Memorial pool with landing craft, American soldier, and German beach barrier. The National D-Day Memorial Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3)organization that had its beginnings as a small committee in 1988 with the prospect of building a memorial to dedicate the sacrifices made by the Allied Forces on D-Day. The idea had been ...
A D-Day veteran has thanked the King and Queen for their card at his surprise 100th birthday party. Mervyn Kersh arrived in Normandy aged 19, three days after the start of the D-Day invasion in ...
Bootprints of 749 troops were laid out on Slapton Sands to mark the 75th anniversary of Exercise Tiger. Commemorative bootprints and special plaques made by veterans to represent each of the 22,763 British and Commonwealth servicemen and women who were killed on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy in the summer of 1944 were sold. Barraud said: