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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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An all-Black battalion stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Why did it take 80 years to honor a hero from that unit?
He was wounded in his approach to the Normandy beaches when his landing craft hit a mine ... and like many Black American heroes from World War II his heroism was never recognized properly." ...
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World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion
Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France ... nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting ...