Exercise Tiger Receives Somber Commemorations
Exercise Tiger was the name of the poorly fated training exercise which took place seven decades ago in preparation for the beach invasions of…
D-Day Memorial Honors Man Responsible for Its Creation
The National D-Day Memorial came into being in 2001. It was brought about at the behest of a man named Bob Slaughter, a member of…
Britain Celebrates the 70th D-Day Anniversary
The 70thanniversary of D-Day is arriving on June 6th of 2014, and Britain is already prepared to commemorate the event. Radio host Chris Evans is…
D-Day commemoration highlights include return of WWII C-47 Dakota to Normandy
The flying of a World War II military transport plane used by the United States during the invasion in Normandy will be one of the…
Jumpers ready for D-Day parachute jump on 70th anniversary commemoration
June 2014 will mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day landings, the start of the end of the Nazi occupation over Europe. It will be the…
MIA American Hero Forgotten During WWII is Now Returning to be Buried on American Soil
Lawrence Gordon, Private First Class in WWII, was forgotten for over fifty years after being buried near the site of his death in Normandy. Now,…
Writer Brings Eve of D-Day Invasion to Life
A Massachusetts writer has begun an interesting series of articles on the D-Day invasion based on the experiences of a fictional journalist in the camps…
Normandy features feat of WWII soldiers during D-Day landings
The 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings is just around the corner. And stories of the struggles of soldiers during the war emerge with renewed…
D-Day: Band Of Brothers: Day Of Days
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, which took place on the D-Day beach landings. The 101st Airborne job there, that…
Normandy, France: A visitor’s Guide For D-Day’s 70th Anniversary
These are some of the places you can visit as you commemorate the D-Day landings: D-DAY LANDING BEACHES: One of the highlights of Normandy are…
Meeting A Veteran – By John Henry Phillips
We grow up on stories of World War 2. From being a child pretending a fallen twig is a gun, to the extra excitement when…
300 Veterans to Attend the 70 Year Anniversary of D-Day
There will be almost 300 veterans from the United States who participated in the Second World War D-Day landings, hoping to attend this ceremonies in…