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D-Day in Normandy: The 101st Airborne’s Path to Victory
The 101st Airborne’s Brave Fight in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont 🪂⚔️ June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of the liberation of France, and the 101st Airborne Division was at the heart of it. This video ...
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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 ...
'They finally gave us closure': WWII sergeant's remains coming home 80 years after death
A World War II soldier killed on a bomber plane in France more than 80 years ago will finally come home with an assist from his niece in Oxnard. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Felix Shostak, then 24, of ...
Greek Reporter3d
How the Winged Victory of Samothrace Escaped From the Nazis
Countless masterpieces in the Louvre, such as the Nike or Winged Victory of Samothrace, were saved from the Nazis in Word War ...
Military.com4d
The Army's Secret Program to Interrogate German POWs During World War II
From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...
History Extra4d
Timeline: the rise and fall of the Third Reich
Historian Roger Moorhouse charts the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, from the end of the First World War to the Third Reich's ...
New Castle News4d
County man among the dead in WWII invasion
A New Castle man was one of 58 Pennsylvania soldiers to die 81 years ago Sunday during an Allied invasion of Italy in World ...
West Palm Beach centenarian reflects on extraordinary life of World War II heroism
West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...