She died at 27 in a crash of a two-seater L-5 Sentinel aircraft. She was one of four women buried at the American Cemetery at Normandy. Madison said the present understanding of World War Two just focused on the experiences of male soldiers but women were also important to the war eff...
troops to the beaches of northern France as a young Royal Navy gunner, has died, his family said. He was 99. Chandler, who served aboard a British motor torpedo boat during the invasion of Normandy that began on June 6, 1944, was one of the dwindling cohort of D-Day survivors who ...
The Coutances area in Normandy, north-western France had fallen to Indian forces, with the region rife with refugees from the fighting. 26 November 1958 AANW 37 Reich counter offensive began just outside the French town of Coutances where smallpox contaminated dolls and other toys were ...
A battlefield cemetery, one of the first to be used for the interment of American soldiers who fell on German soil, was established here on 10 November 1944 by the U.S. Ninth Army. Here rest 8,302 of our military Dead, representing 43 percent of those who were originally buried in ...
And that awful bit of news buried on the back page of yesterday's paper. Then the news of you this morning, in the snow. Sometimes the interval Of bad news is so brisk that... And the human brain, with its tray of images
Clinton ‘Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day at Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France,’ 6 June 1994 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=50297,‘Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day at Utah Beach in Normandy,’ 6 June 1994 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=50299 ...
“He was buried in the Punch Bowl for so many years, but now he’s going to one of the greatest cemeteries,” she said. “When everything was presented to me, it was an honor to be truly connected back to that true piece of history.” ...
This beautiful chateau outside of Paris was once the home of Mary Cassatt, one of America’s greatest painters. Cassatt lived there from 1894 until her death in 1926, and is in fact buried with her family nearby. I first wrote about my visit to this chateauhereon this blog in 2014. ...
On June 6, 1944 — D-Day — American soldiers joined Allied Forces for the liberation of France. 2499 Americans fell before the Allies chased the Germans from heavily fortified Omaha Beach. Two days after the landing, the American dead were buried temporarily in the first American cemetery to...
“Let me assure you, what you read in those silly books that have been written about D-Day are absolute crap,” he said in June at an event at Southwick House, on the south coast of England, the Allied headquarters during the Battle of Normandy. “It’s a load of old rubbish...