Russia: West slighted Soviets in D-Day ceremonies

Russia on Thursday accused Western leaders of slighting the Soviet role in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in their remarks this month commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy.

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Ike's vision now key to US military thinking

When Dwight Eisenhower planned the World War II invasion that wrested Europe from Hitler's hands, he believed — as many strategists do today — that victory and a lasting peace required more than military might.

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French honor D-Day vet from all-black unit

As a soldier in World War II, William Dabney was used to the military's segregated quarters. An African-American, he had no contact with his white counterparts.

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'Greatest Generation' dwindles at D-Day memorial

It's "A Gathering of the Greatest Generation" — though this year only a small group of that era's aging heroes will commemorate the invasion of France at Normandy 65 years ago.

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The disaster that may have saved D-Day

SLAPTON SANDS, England - Lured across the English Channel by an unexpected frenzy of radio chatter, the Nazi predators sliced through the waves toward an unknown enemy.

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American, German vets pay respects to D-Day fallen

Americans and Germans who were bitter enemies during the D-Day invasion of France shared stories and moments of silence at a Normandy ceremony Friday, joining together to honor those who perished in the epochal World War II beach landings.

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For D-Day vets, an emotional return to Normandy

Nathan Kline wrapped a white monogrammed scarf around his neck and placed a bulletproof prayer book in his left shirt pocket. He'd followed the same routine for all of his previous bombing runs over Europe, but the teenager from Allentown, Pa., knew there was nothing routine about this mission.

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Royal D-Day row reveals divide over WWII roles

Who won the war?

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Prince Charles to attend D-Day ceremony

Prince Charles will attend this week's 65th-anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings, royal officials said Tuesday, in an attempt to defuse a cross-Channel spat over France's alleged failure to invite his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

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Vets gather at WWII museum to remember D-Day

Guy Gunter couldn't forget June 6, 1944 if he had to. At 1 a.m. that day, Gunter was piloting a glider carrying 15 soldiers in the Normandy invasion, which turned the tide of World War II in Europe and eventually forced the surrender of Germany less than a year later.

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We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation.

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PORTLAND, Ore. —– In the last days of her life, Annabel Kitzhaber had a decision to make: she could be the tissue-skinned woman in the hospital with the tubes and the needles, the meds and smells and the squawk of television.

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Congress gave little more than its good wishes. Private funds covered the $19 million construction cost. The memorial has relied on admission fees and donations since its dedication in 2001.

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A war hero decorated for his bravery in the fight against Hitler is finally being honoured by his home town 55 years after his death. Paddy the pigeon was the first bird make it back to England with vital news from the D-Day Normandy landings in June 1944.

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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D.

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When asked how I came to write "The Greatest Generation," I recount a trip to Normandy in 1984. I went there to produce a documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

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D-Day: Let's not forget

D-Day 2009 A day of Rememberance for the men and women who gave their lives that we may live as we do.

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William G. Dabney could hardly have expected to be spending that ferocious June day in 1944 hunkered on Omaha Beach, struggling to keep aloft one of the tethered silver balloons intended to confound German pilots trying to bomb or strafe exposed Allied invaders in Normandy.

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6 June 1978: A Bicycle Ride through History

Dedicated with loving memory to my mother and father. "I'll Be Seeing You" was "their" song as it was for so many of their generation.

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One of the principal U.S. commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the World War II landings in France will take place June 6-7 at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

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They have long been the forgotten heroes of D-Day, the African American military personnel who stormed ashore and risked their lives for a country that still treated them as second-class citizens.

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For 65 years my family had heard whispers that he and 220 men stormed Omaha Beach and that he and his captain later went AWOL in Paris, France. They heard he returned to combat and fought all the way to Germany and his courage was rewarded with the prestigious Silver Star.

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From ancient times to the present, amphibious military operations have been rightly regarded as particularly challenging. The largest such enterprise was the Allied invasion of France in World War II on June 6, 1944 -- D-Day as it was known.

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Steve Sadlon was awarded a Purple Heart after being wounded during Exercise Tiger, the D-Day dress rehearsal that ended with hundreds of American deaths. Here is his account of the disaster.

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For the 65th year since the June 6 D-Day landings in Normandy, a special section marking an anniversary that is likely to be the last for many of the veterans of that fateful day. Saturday, June 6 is (of course) the actual anniversary.

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On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, donations have dried up due to the poor economy and other reasons....

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It was a massacre that was hushed up for decades - how 749 Americans died in a practice for the Normandy landings. But, experts say, the lessons learned that day may have prevented greater tragedies on the beaches of France.

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Tell us your D-Day stories, thoughts

This Saturday, June 6, is the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy that were the beginning of the end of World War II.

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As the 65th anniversary of D-Day approaches, the rivalries between the US and British commanders that almost scuppered the invasion...

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Invasion is too strong a word for what goes on in Normandy when there is a significant D-Day anniversary, but there is disruption.

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(March 9) - In what's turned out to be a fascinating discovery, an amateur historian has unearthed footage of American and British troops practicing for D-Day.

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British spy chiefs drew up secret plans to use pigeons to spread false rumours about the impending D-Day landings. The plot in 1943 to drop the birds into German-occupied France is revealed in newly declassified MI5 files released by the National Archives.

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What Does Spike Lee Want From Clint Eastwood?

For a few weeks now, a feud has been brewing between film directors Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood. Lee wants to know why there are no black characters in "Flags Of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima", Eastwood's two films about the WWII battle for that Pacific island.

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On June 6, 1944, a date known ever since as D-Day, a mighty armada crossed a narrow strip of sea from England to Normandy, France, and cracked the Nazi grip on western Europe. - Info:

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Isaac schrodinger is the scree ame of a Pakistani born ex-Muslim blogger. He describes this article as ''.A fake but accurate account of the modern media if it were to comment on the events of June 6, 1944 and the immediate aftermath.''

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