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The 4 most dangerous missions American troops carried out 80 years ago on D-Day
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 month agoGen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told his invasion force, "Your task will not be an easy one." He was...
Portsmouth chosen to mark D-Day because of its key role in preparing invasion
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPortsmouth played a key role in the planning and preparation of the D-Day landings, which is...
A jacket, a coin, a letter − relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOne of war photographer Robert Capa's images shows a wave of troops arriving on the Normandy beaches...
Gen. Montgomery wrote his entire D-Day invasion battle plan on a single piece of paper — here it is
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 month agoGen. Bernard "Monty" Montgomery addressing British troops.AP The D-Day invasion of Normandy was a...
D-Day: the biggest seaborne invasion in history
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoEarly on the morning of June 5 1944, General Dwight D Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in Europe, finally gave the order to go ahead, telling his...
The US Navy's turning to its third carrier strike group as its warships react to Middle East...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships cross the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf on...
A US Navy aircraft carrier is rearmed and back in the Red Sea amid a Houthi missile crisis with no...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the French aircraft carrier FS...
The US sent the most D-Day troops – and suffered the highest losses
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoD-Day is one of the key events that defines how the US sees its place in the world. The invasion of...
Soviet media downplayed the significance of the D-Day invasion
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 months agoRussian President Vladimir Putin has said D-Day ‘was not a game changer’ in World War II – and...
‘Mixed feelings’ as D-Day veterans sail for 80th anniversary commemorations
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News· 1 month agoD-Day veterans told of having “mixed feelings” after they set sail for Normandy for the 80th...