The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
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For these “troops,” death is a remote idea: They are all re-enactors from France, Belgium, the Netherlands and elsewhere who have a passion for recreating the environment that surrounded D-Day, complete with vintage cars and trucks. The women have
This is just awesome. Jim 'Pee Wee' Martin, a 93-year-old WWII veteran paratrooper, just did the same jump out of a plane into Normandy that he did for D-Day 70 years ago when he was 23-years-old. But he says this jump
The 70th anniversary of D-Day is a time of pride, gratitude and fear. Pride that the generation of '44 had the courage to storm across the English Channel and take the Nazis' Fortress Europa. Gratitude that their self-sacrifice has helped make it