Tag: World War II

Natal had big role for US in WWII

Jim Vertuno · June 15, 2014 7:30 pm

Clarification: D-Day-Commemorations story

Washington Examiner · June 12, 2014 3:55 pm

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Normandy American Cemetery at Omaha Beach as he participates in the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Colleville sur Mer in Normandy, France, Friday, June 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama honors WWII, 9/11 generations at Normandy

NEDRA PICKLERJULIE PACE · June 6, 2014 1:58 pm

Led by their president, Americans prayed on D-Day

David Kerr · June 6, 2014 9:00 am

Allied troops crouch behind the bulwarks of a landing craft as it nears Omaha Beach during a landing in Normandy, France. Allied troops in the D-Day invasion landed on the Normandy coast of France in tremendous strength by cloudy daylight and stormed several miles inland with tanks and infantry in the grand assault that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory."

Congressional delegation to commemorate D-Day anniversary

Sean Lengell · June 5, 2014 9:28 pm

World War II veteran Doug Thrutchley stands by the captured U-505 German submarine on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Thrutchley, who was involved with capture of the 252-foot vessel, was on hand to mark the 70th anniversary of its capture. It is the only German submarine the U.S. Navy captured during the war and one of five left in the world. (AP Photo/Stacy Thacker)

Last meeting for WWII veterans who captured U-boat

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 7:33 pm

This June 6, 1944, file photo shows American soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force securing a beachhead during initial landing operations at Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. From the first sketchy German radio broadcast to the distribution of images filmed in color, it has taken decades for the full story of the D-Day invasion to come out. As world leaders and veterans prepare to mark the 70th anniversary of the invasion this week, multiple Twitter hashtags are following the ceremonies minute by minute. At the time, the reporting, filming and taking of photos was neither easy nor straightforward. (AP Photo/Weston Haynes, File)

D-Day narrative started early, and still evolves

Jamey Keaten · June 4, 2014 9:07 am

France restricts coverage of D-Day anniversary

Washington Examiner · May 30, 2014 2:59 pm

In this photo dated May 14, 2014, Andree Auvray answers question during an interview with the Associated Press in Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy, France. Andree Auvray, nine months pregnant, was hiding from German bombings in a Normandy ditch with her husband one night in June 1944 when their dogs started barking. The shadows of three soldiers appeared. The soldiers were Americans. D-Day had begun. Auvray relives that wrenching time with clarity and a growing sense of urgency. Seventy years have passed since the Allied invasion of Normandy helped turn the tide against Hitler. With their numbers rapidly diminishing, she and other French women and men who owe their freedom to D-Day's fighters are more determined than ever to keep alive the memory of the battle and its meaning. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

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French survivors keep D-Day gratitude alive

CATHERINE GASCHKAANGELA CHARLTON · May 30, 2014 1:28 pm

List of New York state WWII dead available online

Washington Examiner · May 29, 2014 7:02 am

FILE - In this June 6, 2004 file photo, French President Jacques Chirac, left, greets Queen Elizabeth II, of Britain, and her husband Prince Philip at the British military cemetery in Bayeux, northwestern France, during ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. The perils of World War II directly shaped the lives of Elizabeth, 88, and Philip, 92. The anniversary is so heartfelt that the royal couple is preparing to cross the English Channel once more, this time on a Eurostar train through the Channel Tunnel Elizabeth helped 20 years ago. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

D-Day: Queen Elizabeth making rare foreign trip

Gregory Katz · May 29, 2014 6:55 am

ADVANCE FOR STORY SLUGGED D-DAY FRENCH GI BY LORI HINNANT FOR RELEASE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014. In this photo dated July 1944 and provided by Dargols' family shows Bernard Dargols posing next to a Willys MB U.S. Army Jeep in Normandy, France. When the young Frenchman left Paris at age 18, the plan was to go to New York for a year and learn the sewing machine trade. Six years later, Bernard Dargols found himself crossing the English Channel in a U.S. Army uniform, sloshing ashore at Omaha Beach to a homeland that had stripped his Jewish family of their rights and sent some to die in concentration camps. This French GI, now in his 90s, recounts to AP his remarkable story. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Bernard Dargols' family)

Frenchman joined US D-Day forces to free homeland

Lori Hinnant · May 28, 2014 3:02 pm