The 65th D-day Anniversary Remembered

Gordon Brown, US President Barack Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy remembered D-Day landings with their wives. "The trio walked on stage several minutes ahead of their husbands in the company of D-Day...

Jim Norene, a WWII veteran in Normandy, Obama's guest, dies

Jim Norene, one of President Obama's honoured guests at the 65th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy died last night in his sleep, one day before appearing with the President to honour his fallen...

Remembering Operation Tiger WWII: Six weeks before D-Day

On this 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings, some remaining veterans are pausing to remember an event that took place six weeks prior, known simply as 'Operation Tiger WWII'. Operation Tiger was in essence, a...

D-Day Remembrance on 65th Anniversary: USA, UK, Canada, & France

Saturday marks 65 years ago that the D-Day landings began on June 6, 1944, marking the final stage of the Allied campaign to defeat Nazi Germany.  US President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown,...

D-Day Commemorations Begin as Veterans Feel Left Out

Tomorrow marks the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, and fewer and fewer veterans of the invasion are around to commemorate. French President Nicolas Sarkozy is hosting ceremony at the American Cemetery and...

Obama bans the commonfolk on Normandy D-Day

Wonder if the story will come back now? "A lot of the difference, the change if you will, between Obama and Bush has much to do with the word humility. George Bush is and was a humble man. Obama thinks the...

US officials presented incriminating evidences against Khali Awan

 Dear Sir / Madam I am 46 years old, Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan (Muslim). I was an immigration consultant in Canada and also member of Canadian Bar Association as part of my business , I had an...

Normandy Invasion Remembered

Sixty-four years ago, 156,000 troops — including many black soldiers like the ones shown above — landed on the Normandy coast of France in the largest invasion force in history. They moved upon the...

64th Anniversary of D-Day

Operation Overlord, commonly known as "D-Day", commenced on June 6, 1944. American, Canadian and British troops stormed Omaha, Utah, Gold, Sword, and Juno Beaches in Normandy as their air support overflew them and scattered paratroops across the French countryside. Facing a...

Tax return website crashes on D-Day

"The Government’s online tax return system crashed today, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded and unable to file their tax returns on time. The chaos could not have come at a worse time, with the system grinding to a halt on the day the deadline expired for people...

D-Day for Electronic Voting Machines- UPDATE: They are IN!

"California Secretary of State Debra Bowen will decide today whether to ban new electronic voting machines for next February's presidential primary. No matter what she decides, it will make waves from Capitol Hill to county election offices."And now we wait with 'bated...

The luckiest man alive escapes death on D-Day

“I am the luckiest man alive,” claims eighty-nine year old Rudolph Scheffrahn, pouring slivovitz into three small, heavily cut crystal goblets and handing two of them to the two men in our group of four. He...

The Longest Day

"It's the anniversary of the biggest military invasion in history, D-Day, (1944). It's when the Allied armies launched the invasion of Normandy. Dwight D. Eisenhower had planned the invasion, and had been...

Dick Winters: Reflections on the Band of Brothers, D-Day and Leadership

"After his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1945, Major Richard Winters returned to civilian life. He worked for a while for Nixon Nitration Works, the family firm of his wartime friend Louis Nixon. Following a brief tour of duty during the Korean War, he returned to Hershey,...

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