czwartek, 6 czerwca 2013

D-Day anniversary commemorations begin in France

In 1994, the 50th anniversary year of the Allied invasion of Normandy, I was lucky enough to work as a fact-checker and writer for a distinguished history magazine. This often meant removing a second "t" in "Mathew Brady," untangling fatality figuresExplore the history of D-Day, the momentous invasion of Normandy, France, by the Allies during World War II, which was the largest amphibious assault in history.The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: The World War II D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.RUSH: We stopped in three places, touring D-Day locations, and we just barely scratched the surface.It's no mystery why images of unremitting violence spring to mind when one hears the deceptively simple term, “D-Day.” We've all seen — in photos, movies, old news reels, and usually in grim black-and-white — what happened on the beaches of Normandy
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