Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Dday

  • It was 68 years ago today that D-Day, one of the most decisive battles, marked the beginning of the end for World War II.
  • (CNN (blog))
  • LAKELAND -- Joe Wooten was drafted out of high school in March 1944. By June, he was landing on the bloodied shores of Omaha Beach in Normandy.
  • (Gainesville Sun)
  •   To commemorate the 68th anniversary of D-day -- the Allied invasion that paved the way for the end of the World War II in Europe -- a statue honoring Maj. Dick Winters and his fellow front-line leaders was unveiled in France.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • ALBANY, N.Y.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)
  • WASHINGTON - With the World War II Memorial as a backdrop, veterans Josephine and Murray Bussard shared a kiss from their wheelchairs as they commemorated the 68th anniversary of D-Day, and celebrated almost as many years of marriage.
  • (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
  • 68 years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt asked the nation to pray with him as the US Military and its allies invaded the shores of Northern France. America's prayers were answered as D-Day became a major turning point in World War II.
  • (FOX News)
  • It was 68 years ago that Frank Serridge of Milford set up the radar on the planes used to invade Normandy in the D-Day landing of 150,000 Allied troops on Nazi-fortified beaches. Less than a year later a wounded Sam Mackey Jr.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • It was 68 years ago when more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany and gain a foothold on continental Europe. Army Maj.
  • (Augusta Chronicle)
  • Staff Sgt. John N. Hedgepeth of Fort Benning didnt have any relatives in Normandy, France, during the D-Day invasion of Europe in World War II, but emotions got the best of him during a visit to Omaha Beach.
  • (Ledger-Enquirer)

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