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SC family lost 3 on same day in Normandy invasion. Their sacrifices are remembered 81 years later.
Neil Smoak has spent his life studying his family, including three Smoak men from Colleton County who died June 9, 1944, during the Normandy invasion.
Roger O. Cranville: 80 years after the end of World War II, England says thank you to America
Has it already been 80 years since the end of World War II? Europeans don’t seem to think so. We remember, and among the most ...
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WWII vets are rock stars in France as they hand over the duty of remembering D-Day
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much ...
Reporter's Notebook: Recalling an American WWII hero who helped fight off Nazi forces during Normandy invasion
Eighty-one years after William Owens helped stop Nazi forces in Normandy, the Army posthumously awarded him the Distinguished ...
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Normandy Breaks the Reich - 200,000 Germans Retreat Through Fire and Blood
The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of ...
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As fires burn in LA, has Trump found his Reichstag fire moment?
Trump's decision to call in the National Guard to quell unrest recalls the ways in which Hitler asserted and consolidated ...