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Omaha’s final gun: The last hours of the MG42 that held up the invasion
As the only working MG42 left at WN62, Hinrich Severloh fired into six waves of American troops on Omaha Beach. His position ...
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Stealing Omaha Beach: The mission that tested the sand before D-Day
Under cover of darkness, Allied swimmers slipped ashore on Omaha Beach armed with drills, knives, and nerves of steel, boring ...
June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Here’s one soldier’s account of what it was like to land on Omaha Beach during the fierce ...
June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...
NORMANDY, France — The ghostly echoes of D-Day can still be felt – if not heard – in that special place we call “Omaha Beach.” Eighty years ago, 156,000 allied troops stormed onto Omaha Beach and four ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and ...
This is the true story of a Delaware native who took part in what historian Stephen Ambrose called the most critical day of the 20 th Century: June 6, 1944 — D-Day. Charles J. Noonan grew up in the ...
The military history and culinary traditions of Normandy, France meet in a tasteful and secretive enclave behind the walls of a 12th-century castle, a short distance from D-Day landmarks Omaha Beach ...
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