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Thursday night: Country star Zach Bryan won the hearts of Iowans at Hinterland last summer. Now he spends two nights at Wells Fargo Arena, 730 Third St., Des Moines, at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday ...
Thursday night: The lights go on for Blank Park Zoo’s Wild Lights Festival starting at 7:30 p.m. Through May 27 on Wednesday through Sunday nights, the zoo at 7401 S.W. Ninth St., Des Moines ...
US D-Day veterans attend an event at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial as part of the 79th anniversary D-Day celebrations on June 6, 2023. - Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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 ...
Negra this week visited the Normandy American Cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer and attended a series of D-Day celebrations with a group of about 50 U.S. veterans. The 80th anniversary “is the same as when I went through the towns during WWII,” he said. People “were in the windows, in the doorways and they were on the streets.
Civilian casualties on D-Day and D+1 are estimated at 3,000. [203] The Allied victory in Normandy stemmed from several factors. German preparations along the Atlantic Wall were only partially finished; shortly before D-Day Rommel reported that construction was only 18 per cent complete in some areas as resources were diverted elsewhere. [204]
The Day After Tomorrow - Robert A. Heinlein ; The Day America Told The Truth - James Patterson ; A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; The Day of Forever - J. G. Ballard ; The Day of the Dinosaur - L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp ; The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
The tides and sands of Normandy will always hold historic significance. But there is a recognition at this year’s D-Day celebrations that it may be one of the last featuring this many veterans ...