There is a tendency to conceive of the Allied landings on D-day as a single event, but in fact it was just the first step. |
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Williams interviewed and profiled four D-day veterans, showing his sensitive side without ever seeming maudlin. |
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Pre-eminent naval historian Craig L. Symonds talks about how the Allies devised, executed, and then survived the D-day invasion. |
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The D-day landings marked the final and long anticipated leap from England across the Channel to the Continent. |
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Did Churchill and Roosevelt agree about the when, where, and how of D-day and the invasion of France? |
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The cost in lives, ships, and weapons of that D-day assault was awful. |
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However, in the History of the War at Sea, the ships in the Western Task Force, opened fire at H-hour on D-day, an hour before those of us who were in the Eastern Task Force. |
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This precaution proved to be worthwhile because on D-day the weak spell only lasted 4 or 5 minutes and then my body took over and took off again! |
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Jordan, known as Bernie, travelled to D-day events in Normandy wearing his war medals and grey mac. |
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But for the one who was blindsided when the papers were served and had no intention of ever signing, D-day is a catastrophe. |
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Hollywood would never grossly distort the Civil War or D-day. |
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On D-day, weather permitting, everything is installed during the day. |
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Collectables which are not listed as relics are all genuine items obtained from local farmers or persons who lived here in France during World War II and the D-day conflict. |
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The long-awaited D-day had finally arrived with just a few hours to go. |
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Gen. George C. Marshall began planning the postwar occupation of Germany two years before D-Day. |
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Inside Out follows residents on their fight with officialdom as the final countdown to D-Day begins. |
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Rode back early this morning, and my helmet now looks like an insect version of the Normandy beaches after D-Day. |
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Rehearsals began in October gathering in frequency and intensity as D-Day approaches. |
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The raid also had a major influence on the success of the Allied troop landings on the Normandy beaches on D-Day a year later. |
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His ship supported the American landings on Omaha Beach on D-Day, picking up survivors. |
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A soldier who was among first allied servicemen to land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day is preparing to return to the scenes. |
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Mr Smart landed on Sword Beach in Ouistreham, Normandy at noon on D-Day in a Sherman Firefly tank. |
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Crews stationed there flew into action on D-Day as well as during the Arnhem and Rhine crossing operations. |
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Allied casualties on D-Day are estimated at 10,000, of whom 2,500 were killed. |
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A special exhibition has been mounted to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. |
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Just about one year later, the start of the liberation of France took place with D-Day on June 6th. |
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Sixty years ago this weekend thousands of young men from this area braced themselves to storm the beaches at Normandy on D-Day. |
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The D-Day commemorations in Normandy this weekend will be a reminder of our shared history. |
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This weekend, the world will remember the courage and sacrifice of the Allied troops at the D-Day landings in France. |
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The school recently visited the Normandy beaches to learn about D-Day. |
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During the war, the airfield was used by Dakota aircraft and gliders preparing for the D-Day and Arnhem landings. |
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The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., will have several events with guest speakers and a commemoration ceremony. |
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Now 60 years on, after watching countless documentaries about D-Day and doodlebugs, he is desperate to find out what happened to the infant. |
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In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy. |
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Unfortunately, there is no official list of those Australians who served on the ships and landing craft during the D-Day landings. |
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Petrified soldiers bouncing through the sea in their landing craft towards the D-Day beaches must have been thinking the same too. |
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As D-Day approached I became a zombie, all distant stares and unresponsive grunts. |
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Marketing gurus have dreamed up D-Day Calvados in miniature souvenir bottles, D-Day caps and toy bears, D-Day books and CD's and playing cards. |
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He had dedicated much of his life to serving the community, was a D-Day veteran and had been a trade unionist. |
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His shooting style was thought of as conservative, yet he boldly installed 152 mini cameras on the D-Day landing craft. |
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The wartime tricorn hat and WRNS badge on display are those she wore on D-Day itself as she went on duty at Eisenhower's HQ at Southwick House. |
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Charles Turner was serving with the Royal Air Force when his squadron got their flying orders for D-Day. |
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He had been a staff sergeant during the tank landings on the second day of the D-Day invasion and fought his way through enemy fire to Belgium. |
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I approached a one-star and asked if the three-star who was the ranking officer at the event would like to meet Flanagan, an original from D-Day. |
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Captain Leghorn, after registering five missions, was grounded by order of higher headquarters until after D-Day. |
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He was among the Canadian forces that landed on Juno Beach on D-Day. |
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At the strategic location of Pointe du Hoc, American Rangers scaled the cliff walls on D-Day. |
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Many kinds of vehicles were waterproofed for D-Day, including tanks and jeeps. |
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But in 1944, Norman returned to action by taking part in D-Day plus one, in which he was wounded in the face and nearly blinded. |
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One recipient was Jan De Vries, who was airdropped into Normandy before dawn on D-Day with the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. |
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He went on to command the US land forces at D-Day and the subsequent US advance through France. |
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Canada's military played a key role in the D-Day landings, code named Operation Overlord, with about 18,000 troops storming ashore at Juno Beach. |
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The theme extends to detailed scale model layouts of tanks and ships, and a war games group will re-enact the D-Day Landings in miniature. |
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Now known to history as D-Day, Operation Overlord, the greatest seaborne invasion in history, began the long-awaited invasion of Europe. |
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A glass sculpture created in Warminster will be the centrepiece of a memorial to the D-Day landings in France 60 years ago. |
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A short service to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day was held in Skipton and Settle. |
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Every time a D-Day anniversary approaches, he is besieged with requests from journalists and researchers seeking interviews. |
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When the 90th Division went ashore 2 days after D-Day, it was not ready for ferocious combat in the bocage. |
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Warminster Library is to host a special party for D-Day veterans to spread their tales of bravery. |
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On Friday he joins up with hundreds of D-Day veterans for a special tribute in France. |
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The only Victoria Cross won on D-Day was awarded to Green Howard Sergeant Major Stan Hollis, of D Company. |
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The battlefields of Normandy are drawing increasing numbers of British visitors as the anniversary of D-Day approaches. |
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Then there's a film show on Southsea Common, a display of historic military vehicles, a commemorative website and a ceremony at the D-Day stone. |
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The 60th commemorations of the greatest amphibious invasion in history will be the last big ceremony marking D-Day. |
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One RAAF pilot flew two sorties on D-Day alongside his Allied counterparts. |
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Was it the tactless non-invitation to Queen Elizabeth II to the D-Day commemoration? |
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The wonder drug was soon available to treat Allied troops after the D-Day invasion, and the world entered the age of modern medicine. |
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But to commemorate the 70th anniversary of D-Day, it is being awarded to veterans who helped in the liberation of France. |
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Inside the cathedral was British D-Day veteran Victor Mackenzie, 91, who was aged 20 when he served with the Royal Army Service Corps on D-Day. |
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Jack had wanted to team up with bosom pal Lew Williams, but that was not possible because they had been allocated different Landing Craft Tanks on D-Day. |
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Several films gave the impression that the D-Day landings broke the back of the German army and it was all over after then, which was wrong, of course. |
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On June 6, 1944 he took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, going ashore at Omaha Beach. |
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Indeed, more than a million doses of botulism antiserum were prepared for D-Day soldiers invading Normandy Beach. |
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Constructed of various concrete caissons and pontoons, the Mulberrys were the innovation that made the Normandy campaign following the D-Day landings possible. |
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Winston Churchill was given a guided tour of the D-Day beaches in a duck. |
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His remarks are also particularly insensitive as we approach the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings when so many soldiers gave their lives to help liberate Europe. |
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There will be military parades, exhibitions, displays of more than 100 wartime vehicles and a D-Day battle scenario on Morecambe beach close to the lifeboat station. |
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Although young, Mr Bowen was under no illusions about what he would have to face on D-Day, not least because he was in the company of battle-hardened veterans. |
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Garbo emerged from D-Day as the greatest double-agent of the war, perhaps of all time. |
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You will practice easy-to-use exercises so you don't panic on D-Day or go blank when writing your paper and stay in control during an interview. |
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During the first week of D-Day, the men lived in shallow foxholes or in 3 foot-deep holes with pup tents set up directly over the holes. |
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A message sent to top brass on May 19, 1944, substituted Halcyon for D-Day and Hornpipe for Operation Overlord. |
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They have recorded the bulletin scripts that were read out as the Allied forces landed in Normandy for D-Day, 70 years ago. |
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This is the region where you can drift back in time to when the clock seems to have stopped at the first wave of the D-Day Landings. |
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In January 1944, he was promoted to Lieutenant-General and General Officer Commanding of II Canadian Corps, that he had to train in preparation for D-Day. |
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Going Dutch to honour heroes HAVE any readers been interested in the recent D-Day coverage? |
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John Coode, 89, has been told he must wait until next year to receive his prestigious Legion D'Honneur from the French government for his bravery on D-Day. |
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In the months following D-Day, the embattled Germans began to give way and the Canadians began to break-out north and east against the retreating German defences. |
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Few days before joining the microblog, CIA opened a Facebook Page too, where it honored D-Day. |
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During this past year, he joined with me and our veterans to commemorate D-Day, the Italian campaign in which he had performed his outstanding act of courage, and finally to the Netherlands. |
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By the end of D-Day, few objectives had been seized, though the four exits from Utah Beach were held by the 101st Airborne, and a linkup with the 4th Division had been achieved. |
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A LIVING history group will re-enact the training of Allied troops who were camped at Erddig near Wrexham prior to D-Day. |
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The gregarious flyboy describes getting shot down on his 100th mission two days after D-Day and being helped by French resistance fighters. |
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The motorbike fan joined the Royal Corps of Signals as a dispatch rider at 19 in 1941 and was at the D-Day landings in France. |
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On D-Day he was a member of the 1st Commando Brigade under Lord Lovat, who ignored orders that no pipes should be played, because of worries about a high death toll. |
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A LEAMINGTON church is to hold a special exhibition to mark the centenary of World War I and to remember the D-Day landings of the Second World War. |
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