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Virginia soldier killed during D-Day invasion accounted for more than 80 years later
U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...
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These Forgotten American “Doughboys” Fought for the British in WWI
The doughboys hated British chow (not to mention drinking tea instead of coffee). They got along better with the Australians, ...
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UK D-Day vet who escorted US troops to Normandy beaches dies at 99
LONDON - D-Day veteran George Chandler ... Chandler's torpedo boat was part of a flotilla of British vessels that escorted U.S. Army soldiers to Omaha and Utah beaches during the Iandings.
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D-Day in colour: From the beaches of Normandy to safety in England
On the 80th anniversary of D-Day ... the German soldiers she treated alongside the Allied Forces: "In a Nissen hut away from the others, about twenty German boys occupied the beds, all about sixteen ...