| Globe and Mail - 2 hours ago The demonstration, on the 68th anniversary of the historic D-Day landings, was aimed at the federal government's relatively new policy of paying injured soldiers lump-sum compensation for wounds and injuries, rather than life-time pensions. |
| Los Angeles Times - 3 hours ago By Michael Muskal To commemorate the 68th anniversary of D-day -- the Allied invasion that paved the way for the end of the World War II in Europe -- a statue honoring Maj. | | | Washington Post - 4 hours ago WASHINGTON - With the World War II Memorial as a backdrop, veterans Josephine and Murray Bussard shared a kiss from their wheelchairs as they commemorated the 68th anniversary of D-Day, and celebrated almost as many years of marriage. |
Fox News - 48 minutes ago For most of us, what we know of D-Day, with its images of men wading ashore, amidst a storm of gunfire from German troops, is taken from books or movies in which the end is known from the beginning: America triumphed, despite the loss of 9000 soldiers, ... |
| CNN (blog) - 11 hours ago It was 68 years ago today that D-Day, one of the most decisive battles, marked the beginning of the end for World War II. | | Baltimore Sun - 4 hours ago (Holbrook Bradley/Baltimore Sun) PHOTO LINK Men of the 29th Infantry Division, which was known as the Blue and Gray Division for its origins in the Maryland-Virginia region, watch as the French coastline draws nearer on D-Day landing at Normandy. |
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago By CHRIS CAROLA AP ALBANY, NY—Kenneth Davey said the grim reason his father and other medical personnel from his Navy unit never received the Bronze Star for their actions at Normandy on D-Day was because many of the officers who would have made the ... |
Albany Times Union - 1 hour ago (Lori Van Buren / Times Union) World War II Monument at a rededication ceremony at Division and 3rd Streets June 6, 2012 in Troy, NY The ceremony at the First Ward Memorial was to honor and remember those who died on D-Day, June 6, 1944. |
BusinessWeek - 20 hours ago And when the US Supreme Court declined to review the ruling on May 14, a 30-day countdown began after which the patent office can cancel the trademark. | | Stars and Stripes - 3 hours ago By Susan M. Cover TOGUS - Nearly 70 years ago, Army soldiers Leon Audet and Almo Nickerson served side-by-side on D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy. Audet, of Winslow, was later wounded and left for dead. Nickerson, of Hallowell, was taken as a prisoner ... |
Denver Post - 6 hours ago Dick Winters was one of many events marking Wednesday's 68th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied operation that paved the way for the end of the war. | | It was a more emotional day than usual at the National D-Day Memorial, as they honored the man many consider the founder here, Bob slaughter. |
| Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette - 4 hours ago Editor's note: This is a chapter from "When We Went to War," a News-Gazette book based on a special section published on June 6, 1994, the 50th anniversary of D-Day. (The ages of those interviewed are reported as they were when they were interviewed in ... |
Huffington Post - 9 hours ago Now, nearly seven decades after that fateful day, it's time to change that, to add Juan Pujol's name to the roll call of D-Day's prime actors. In my book, Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day (out July ... |
Fox News - 15 hours ago ... something significant, and for centenarian Bea Cohen of Los Angeles, not only did she see air strikes during World War II--Cohen watched the Allied airplanes en route to the shores of Normandy in support of the D-Day invasion, 68 years ago today. | | Charlotte Observer - 1 hour ago Each June 6, as she did Wednesday, she calls her goddaughter in Paris, born 4 days before D-Day. Each June 6, Collette Leonard Wright flips to the day on her calendar and remembers she must call her god-daughter in Paris to wish her a happy birthday. |
| Roberts said he was lucky to have survived the D-Day invasion that killed more than 9000 Allied troops. "Then when you lose your buddies, it hurts. | | | Heritage.org (blog) - 5 hours ago The same is true for D-Day, June 6, 1944, when Allied forces began carrying out the largest amphibious invasion in history. |
| Newnan Times-Herald - 14 hours ago By ALEX MCRAE Today, millions around the world will commemorate the 68th anniversary of D-Day, the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault on the shores of France that began the Allied advance that led to the end of World War II in Europe. |
Wooten doesn't remember the exact day he landed, but it was near the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion. The shoreline was littered with the ravages of that day and the German Army was still trying to push the Allies back into the sea. | |
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