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Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago
Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.
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In honor of D-Day: 5 actors who were there 80 years ago
He starred with Robert Taylor in MGM's 1956" "D-Day the Sixth of June" playing a fictional character and six years later would portray Major Howard in the epic "The Longest Day." In 2003 ...
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80 years later, memories of D-Day invasion, sacrifice remain strong
“The 1st sergeant comes barreling into our barracks with paint cans,” the 100-year-old veteran from Thousand Oaks recalled this week just days ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy D ...
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DDAY veterans with Denver charity cross English Channel to Normandy, as they did 80 years ago
Steven Melnikoff, 104, and Donald Cobb, 99, are veterans of the DDAY invasion, and they're returning to France for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied attack on the ...
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How D-Day saved Europe, and my family, from the Nazis
Eighty years ago, an attorney’s French Jewish grandparents were on the run and on the verge of deportation when the Allied forces liberated Paris. Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day ...