d-day
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The ‘Funnies’ Were The Wildly Modified Tanks That Protected The Allies On D-Day
Of all the stories of the D-Day invasion, the most heroic—and tragic—involve the waves of Allied soldiers who waded ashore to face the enemy on the beach. Thousands of American, British, and Canadian troops, many simple riflemen, were hurled against beach defences occupying German troops had spent years perfecting. One of the unsung weapons that…
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93-Year-Old Vet Recreates His D-Day Parachute Jump Over Normandy
This is just awesome. Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin, a 93-year-old WWII veteran paratrooper, just did the same jump out of a plane into Normandy that he did for D-Day 70 years ago when he was 23 years old. But he says this jump was much easier because “there wasn’t anybody shooting at me today”.