D-Day

The Canadian government has invested around $4 million to partner with a local government to buy back beachfront land and prevent a building development at Juno, the D-Day landing beach Canadian soldiers stormed in 1944.

The dog tags of two members of the “Band of Brothers” WWI unit from the epic 2001 Tom Hanks-HBO miniseries has been found in a dig in England.

President Joe Biden ignored the anniversary of the historic D-Day invasion by American soldiers for the second year in a row as president.

Google snubbed the 78th D-Day anniversary with its Monday “Google Doodle,” chooding instead to celebrate the espresso machine’s inventor.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When D-Day veterans set foot on the Normandy beaches and other World War II sites, they express a mix of joy and sadness. Joy at seeing the gratitude and friendliness of the French toward those who landed on June 6, 1944. Sadness as they think of their fallen comrades and of another battle now being waged in Europe: the war in Ukraine.

Col. Edward Shames, final surviving member of the World War II parachute infantry regiment known as the “Band of Brothers” which inspired the HBO miniseries and book of the same name, died Friday. He was 99.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki addressed Biden’s failure to acknowledge the D-Day anniversary during the daily press briefing after the snub was first highlighted by Breitbart News.

Americans commemorated D-Day, June 6, 1944, on Sunday, that led to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.

Several journalists and other woke blue-checks took to Twitter to claim the D-Day landings near Normandy, France 76 years ago are somehow like the Antifa-led riots.

Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), commemorated the 76th anniversary of D-Day by describing it as the “largest Antifa operation in history.”

Activists defaced and scaled Abraham Lincoln’s statue in Parliament Square, London, at a Black Lives Matter rally held in defiance of Britain’s anti-coronavirus regulations.

Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, Westminster has been vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings by Black Lives Matter protesters.

SAINT-LAURENT-SUR-MER, France (AP) – At least the dead will always be there.

Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) predicted it will take “a couple years” to get consumer confidence back after the coronavirus pandemic but said restarting the economy will be “a lot better because we kept the infrastructure in place.”

A 96-year-old World War II veteran is running coast-to-coast for his second time to raise enough money to sail the fully restored landing ship the USS LST 325, to Normandy, France, in time for D-Day’s anniversary.

Her Majesty The Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landings and the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in a Christmas messsage which stressed reconciliation, and the beginning of great things from small steps.

D-Day veteran and former British armed forces chief Field Marshal the Lord Bramall KG, GCB, OBE, MC, JP has died aged 95.

A group of First and Second World War military graves that were discovered smashed on the D-Day 75th Anniversary have been restored by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), which vowed to maintain the graves “today, tomorrow and forever.”

U.S. Women’s National Soccer team co-captain Megan Rapinoe refused to sing the national anthem during Tuesday’s World Cup game in France, only six days after the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

The president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has added his voice to the praise heaped upon President Trump’s powerful D-Day speech, noting its important stand against “transnational progressivism.”

Police are investigating and appealing for information after a number of graves, the majority of which were military graves, were found desecrated as allied nations commemorated the bravery and loss of life on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. 

This week marks the 75th anniversary of one of the great turning points in WWII—the invasion of Normandy. Some of the first Allied troops to touch ground in Normandy were paratroopers. Beginning nearly 30 years ago, I started interviewing and gathering

Vice President Mike Pence is addresed employees of robotic packaging company JLS Automation on Thursday in York, Pennsylvania.

D-Day will always be a day when we look to the past, to honor and remember those who sacrificed so much at the outset of the liberation of Europe. However, the 75th anniversary of D-Day turned out to be an extra special day for a current member of our military who also happens to be an NFL football player.

Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton would not have become generals amidst “political correctness” in today’s military, said Sebastian Gorka.

Appearing Wednesday on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) invoked the 75th anniversary of World War II’s Normandy invasion to attack the Trump administrations’ family separation policy, describing it as a “war on children” and “not in the spirit of what we did on D-Day.”

An event commemorating the D-Day landings took a distinctly political turn Thursday after French president Emmanuel Macron used his speech to promote the European Union, the political bloc he aspires to turn into a military power.

This is a breathtakingly dumb take, the kind of thing you expect to hear on CNN, a dumbing down — not only of history, but of logic — that takes your breath away.

The audience chuckled as Trump made his way across the stage, greeting the veterans, shaking their hands, and saluting.

President Donald Trump commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday and delivered the following speech in honor of those “thousands [who] sacrificed their lives” for liberty.

Journalists were surprised to learn Thursday, on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, that many of the American veterans of that historic battle support President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump paid tribute to the soldiers who fought on D-Day, as part of the 75th anniversary of the historic battle.

Ultimately, the American involvement at D-Day boiled down to the grit, initiative, and leadership of American’s greatest asset—the individual soldier.

President Donald Trump addressed D-Day veterans in Normandy, France on the 75th anniversary of the counter-invasion to liberate continental Europe from German occupation, telling those survivors of the landings they are “the pride of our nation… the glory of our Republic.”

On Tuesday, June 6, 1944, over 160,000 brave men crossed the choppy waters of the English Channel to land in enemy-occupied France for the long-awaited liberation of “Fortress Europe.” The following photo essay is offered in their honor and in honor of the men and women of our Greatest Generation.