Rare Video Shows China's Game-Changing Weapon for 'D-Day'
The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.
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Normandy Beaches: Walking in the Footsteps of D-Day Soldiers in France
Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, ...
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The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
"We'll start the war from right here!" Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the ...
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Communist China Envisioning Supersized Landing Ships To Put Troops and Vehicles Ashore in Any Invasion of Free China
A war of tomorrow — rather than yesteryear — is coming into focus in the straits between the mainland and Taiwan.
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80 years later, memories of D-Day invasion, sacrifice remain strong
About a month before the Allied invasion of a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, France, Leonard Zerlin, then a 20-year-old B-26 turret gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps, had a sense ...
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Newly Rediscovered, a Missing Fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry Is Returning to France
Likely removed by Nazi researchers, the scrap of fabric is a small but crucial part of the tattered tapestry's nearly ...
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Surviving veterans of D-Day invasion return to Normandy for 80th anniversary
Some 4,000 Allied troops were killed in the invasion. Goss knows he was one of the lucky ones to make it back home. He traveled to Normandy with his daughter and nephew. Separately, many other ...
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World War II's D-Day: Photos reveal world's largest amphibious invasion
Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...
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Battle of the Bulge
In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter ...