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The 82nd Airborne on D-Day feature in some of the most iconic images taken on and just after D-Day, 6th June 1944. In this episode I take you to the locations where these famous images of the 82nd ...
In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I take a look at the incredible Airborne Museum in the Normandy town of Sainte Mère Église, famous for it being the first town liberated by US Forces on D-DAY, 6th ...
Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and later became a junior lieutenant for the U.S. Navy. Since Pope Leo XIV bec ...
The full line-up has been announced for the highly anticipated 2025 #AmazingAccrington Food & Drink Festival, taking place on ...
Philip Sweet, one of the last survivors of the D Day landings sadly died last Wednesday, 30th April. Known as Phil to his ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day. Answering through his executive assistant, Eisenhower replied that ...
Pope Leo XIV's father, Louis Marius Prevost, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Prevost Snr. was born on July 28, ...
The ferry from Portsmouth to Caen is the most atmospheric way to visit the D-Day battlefields, if not always the most ...
Aged 101 Cecil Newton, from Aldbourne, in Wiltshire, who served in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, died peacefully in his ...
New polling shows how people in different nations view the war’s end — and the chances of a new war.
John turned 19 on May 12, 1944 – less than a month before D-Day. He’ll be celebrating his 100th birthday just four days after ...