Articles tagged with "Operation Overlord"

• Warriors, both modern and aging, commemorate D-Day landings

  June 6, 2012 Comments: 0

  When Eugene Cook jumped into Normandy during the predawn hours of June 6, 1944, he landed several miles from his intended drop zone.

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  First French town liberated on D-Day shows its appreciation to Normandy veterans

  June 8, 2009 Comments: 0

  SAINTE MERE EGLISE, France - After a well-deserved tribute at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial at Omaha Beach June 6, attended by four heads of state, the veterans of D-Day were honored again June 7. This tribute, however, was organized by and held in the town of Sainte Mere Eglise, the first town liberated by Allied forces on D-Day.

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