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Untold Stories of D-Day

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For tens of thousands of Americans stationed in England in the spring of 1944, France was the Far Shore, the place where they would finally meet the Nazis in a fight to the death. To prepare, they trained along a stretch of English coast that had been cleared of civilians. It was called Slapton...read more

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2015 Band of Brothers Actors Reunion (Normandy, France)

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05/06/2015 to 07/06/2015

What: 2015 will be the second and final reunion of the actors in Normandy for the foreseeable future. The 2015 events will recognize the 70th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe (VE Day).

Who: Several new Band of Brothers actors will be joining us in 2015 and hopefully, some of...(find more about the event)

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Bedford’s Valiant Boys by Don Haines (The Battle for Omaha Beach - Warfare History Network)

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The small town of Bedford, Virginia, sacrificed many of its sons at Omaha Beach on D-Day. When twin brothers Roy and Ray Stevens of Bedford, Virginia, joined Company. A, First Battalion, 116th Infantry of the 29th Infantry Division in 1938, they could not know that their decision would...read more

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The Battle for Easy Red & Fox Green, by Flint Whitlock (The Battle for Omaha Beach - Warfare History Network)

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Amid bullets and shells, blood and death, the men of the 1st Infantry Division helped turn the tide at Normandy. Forming the very tip of the Allied spearhead that thrust onto the heavily fortified Omaha beachhead at Normandy was the U.S. 1st Infantry Division’s 16th Infantry Regiment. On D-day,...read more

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Planning Overlord by Michael D. Hull (The Battle for Omaha Beach - Warfare History Network)

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COSSAC staff, under Lt. Gen. Frederick E. Morgan, studied every aspect of a cross-channel invasion of the continent, and eventually chose Normandy. The project seemed remote then, given the vulnerability of Great Britain as she stood alone against the Axis powers, but it was never considered...read more

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