Tag: 101st Airborne Division
Michelin North America Sponsors WWII Veterans Embarking on Milestone Return to...
Photo and article courtesy of Michelin.
GREENVILLE, S.C., April 15, 2024 – Michelin North America, Inc., has partnered with the Best Defense Foundation and Delta...
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...
Bloody Omaha, Part III
Third in a series.
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Operation Neptune laid out a carefully organized assault on the beaches. The landing diagram for the 116th Regimental Landing Team (RLT)...
Bloody Omaha, Part II
2nd in the Series...
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After baulking at American proposals for eighteen months, serious planning for a cross-Channel attack began in December of 1943, after the...
Medics Showed Bravery at Norman Church
ANGOVILLE-AU-PLAIN, France—An off-the-beaten-path medieval church was the scene of unbelievable heroism on a week in 1944 full of valor.
At the Romanesque church at Angoville-au-Plain,...
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