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UNESCO Ponders Making D-Day Landing Beaches a World Heritage Site

While considered hallowed ground in many countries, the historic D-Day landing beaches in Normandy, France, have not been seriously considered as a UNESCO World...

7 Misconceptions About the D-Day Landing at Omaha Beach

On June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 soldiers from the United States and other allied nations invaded the coast of France to overthrow the...

Additional Airborne Sites West of the Merderet River

Additional Airborne Sites West of the Merderet River In addition to the Merderet River crossing sites we list in the “D-Day Visitor’s Handbook,” there are...

Bloody Omaha, Part III

Third in a series. VI   Operation Neptune laid out a carefully organized assault on the beaches. The landing diagram for the 116th Regimental Landing Team (RLT)...

Private Joe Gandara: Correcting an Error in The D-Day Visitor’s Handbook

In 1993 Congress authorized a review of the military records of African-Americans to determine if any racially biased decisions had been made in the...
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