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Before joining OPD in 1947, Toft Jessen played minor league baseball for the New York Yankees and was part of a U.S. Army ...
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The Floating Harbors of D-Day
Ingenious floating harbors, known as Mulberry harbors, were pivotal to the D-Day landings. These engineering marvels enabled ...
The 320 men of the elite Canadian Black Watch were ready to storm Verrieres Ridge to break out of Normandy following the ...
Crich Tramway Village is excited to host a special evening event on Friday, September 19th, featuring one of Britain’s top ...
French researcher Olivier Wieviorka has published ‘The Total History of the Second World War’ on the 80th anniversary of the ...
Battlefield tourism refers to the practice of visiting sites of historical military conflicts, such as battlefields, ...
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Two postmen were among the servicemen from South Oxford who were killed in the Second World War. Maurice Goddard, 31, of Edith Road, Grandpont, who served as a driver with the Royal Army Service Corps ...
The UK military is facing a £20bn hole and depleted forces, but there is a new spirit of innovation in the arms industry ...
The remains of a Houston man were identified 81 years after his landing craft sank during the D-Day landings of World War II, ...