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Retracing the Steps of the Airborne Divisions on D-Day

We revisit Saint-Marcouf and Ravenoville to stand where the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne was filmed and photographed on 6–7 June 1944. Using famed images and Signal Corps ...
Stars and Stripes

Voices of D-Day: Veterans describe the heroism and horror

Editor’s note: This story has been updated. June 6 is the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, when Allied forces launched a naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. To commemorate the ...
Military Times

Remembering D-Day: Key facts about the invasion that altered WWII

American soldiers and supplies arrive on the shore of the French coast of Nazi-occupied Normandy during the Allied D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. (AP) OMAHA BEACH, France — The June 6, 1944, D-Day ...
MLive

D-Day 1944: How the weather forecast played a crucial role in this historic invasion

80 years ago today, on June 6, 1944, the infamous invasion of the Allied forces into France, known as D-Day, occurred. What many people don’t realize is how crucial the weather forecast was in order ...