Bernard Dargols, a Paris-born Jew and only French soldier to fight in an American uniform as Allied forces stormed ashore at Normandy’s Omaha Beach in a battle signaling the end of World War II, has died aged 98.
Meghan Markle, who campaigned against Donald Trump and backed Hillary Clinton, is likely to be a no-show at the president’s state visit to Britain this summer.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will travel to the United Kingdom and France in June, according to the White House.
“That was a great victory, we knew how to win wars, that was a tremendous victory,” Trump said after visiting with the four WWII veterans.
In a scene reminiscent of a World War I battle, Germans and Americans stared at each other across a vast no man’s land. Lt. Leonard Lomell and his fellow Rangers gazed across the icy, flat expanse. They realized it made an ideal killing field.
“As a candidate for president, I promise to make reforming the V.A. one of my absolute highest priorities, and from the first day of my administration, that is exactly what we have done,” Trump said at the signing ceremony in the Rose Garden.
Veterans who were among those soldiers who stormed the Normandy beaches during the D-Day landings are meeting to commemorate and remember the battle, the liberation of Western Europe, and their fallen comrades. Former troops from the United Kingdom, the United
With Memorial Day weekend upon us, patriots may want to spend a few hours remembering some of our greatest war films. Here we will talk briefly about over thirty war films. Some stir the patriot’s blood, others are amusing, many harrowing, still more are foreboding with a subtle anti-war message.
As their first stop on this week’s France trip, U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited with and offered words of great appreciation for embassy staff, members of the U.S. military and their families and honored three veterans of WWII.
This June 6 marks the 73rd anniversary of D-Day. Nothing captures the drama and action of that day better than the words of the men who actually took part in the assault. Particularly poignant are the voices of the elite Army Rangers who led the way off bloody Omaha Beach.
Historian and military veteran Patrick K. O’Donnell joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on the special Memorial Day edition of Breitbart News Daily to talk about his new book, “Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution.”
Five-time Super Bowl winning coach Bill Belichick has been tapped to step out from behind his coaching clipboard and in front of a microphone to narrate a new World War II documentary about the famed D-Day invasion of Normandy, launched by Allied Forces that led to the end of the biggest war in human history.
New winners and new losers are being created as intelligent robots and 3-D printers shrink the payoff from international trade and global outsourcing.
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of D-Day, and Google has decided to sit on their hands for it.
Time will inevitably take the last heroes of D-Day from us, but a few remain, telling their stories to rapt audiences across the nation.
State Senator Jean Fuller (R-Dist. 16) is urging Californians to honor D-Day veterans by voting in California’s June 7 primary.
It was the toughest mission of D-Day. Allied plans called for 225 Rangers, including Dog Company, to land on a tiny beach, scale the ten-story-high cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, France, under a torrent of enemy fire, and destroy the most dangerous gun battery threatening the American portion of the invasion.
“We have to do now restore the founding principles of this nation … We’ve got to get back to understanding that the Constitution is the bedrock of who we are,” retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin told Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, as Boyle guest-hosted that show on SiriusXM Patriot channel 125 this weekend.
On June 6, 1984, the 40th anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan stood on what he called a “lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France” to deliver an oration that would become known as his “Boys of Pointe du Hoc” speech. He made this speech in front of 62 survivors of the 2nd Ranger Battalion who courageously scaled the 100 ft. high cliffs on that fateful day.
On June 6, 1944, almost four years to the day that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech in which he prophetically called for the “New World” to step forth to liberate the old, Allied forces under the command of General Dwight Eisenhower stormed the beaches of Normandy. The hour of Europe’s liberation had come, and it would be delivered by the greatest amphibious invasion in world history.
On June 5, 1944, standing in his headquarters watching it rain, General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe, pulled out a pencil and scribbled a short note he hoped he wouldn’t have to use.
