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Audio, World War II
World War II veteran Tom Rice, a 94-year-old former paratrooper, relives the moment he jumped from a plane on D-Day, and what went wrong as he did. ...
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Audio, World War II
Cpl Norman Swaney of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment talks about parachuting into occupied France on D-Day, June 6, 1944. ...
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Audio, World War II
Sgt Jack Lloyd describes the tension of approaching Normandy and landing on Omaha beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944....
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World War II Magazine
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As an anti-aircraft gunner, Gordon Hearne, 21, landed at Omaha Beach, Normandy on June 7, 1944. That July, the U.S. Army assigned his battalion to the 28th Infantry Division. He survived five European campaigns unscathed. After the war,...
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World War II Magazine
Bagration: The Other Big One. Though D-Day dominates our collective memory of June 1944, Operation Bagration—the Red Army offensive against Germany’s Army Group Center—is one of the greatest victories in the history of land warfare. ...
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Military History Magazine
National D-Day Memorial director April Cheek-Messier discusses the memorial and its unique relationship to neighboring Bedford, Va....
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MHQ Reviews, Reviews
Nation to Nation Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, edited by Suzan Shown Harjo (Smithsonian Books, $40). The scholars and activists who contributed to this volume consider the long and often ignoble history of...
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American History, American History Reviews, Reviews
Reviews: The Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York, The Longest Day, D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II...
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Drafts
Omaha’s dead fell thickly all along the shingle beneath WN 62’s muzzles. Late on June 5, 1944, an alert summoned Wehrmacht Private Heinrich Severloh and First Lieutenant Bernhard Krerking to their stations at a...
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MHQ War List
The backstory to victory on D-Day...
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Drafts
U.S. Army medics rush a wounded GI through Normandy’s bocage country. The ground upon which a battle is fought is one of the most important factors in determining the tactics used in that battle. Terrain always imposes its...
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Drafts
General Dwight D. Eisenhower gazes toward the Norman coast the day after D-Day. The final countdown to the D-Day landings at Normandy began on June 2, 1944, when General Dwight D. Eisenhower moved from his London headquarters to a...
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HistoryNet
William J. 'Wild Bill' Guarnere, a member of the 'Band of Brothers,' ...
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MHQ Magazine
An excerpt from John C. McManus's The Dead and Those About to Die is a visceral account of the D-Day landings...
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MHQ Magazine, Galleries
Photos from the Normandy landings on D-Day 1944...
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MHQ Table of Contents
MHQ Spring 2014 features D-Day landings, the social and technological advances that made mass warfare possible, tales from the Trojan War, Napoleon in decline, and more...