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Last modified on Sun 6 Jun 2021 05.39 EDT Along the coast of Normandy the flags were out. The pipe-and-drum bands were touring the cemeteries and memorials commemorating the dead. The motley ranks of war re-enactors in their khaki wool uniforms sped through the narrow lanes in their vintage jeeps and trucks. For the second year in a row, however, the veterans whose bravery on 6 June 1944 they were here to honour were missing. Once again, the coronavirus has prevented British and other veterans ...

Ceremony takes place at Ver-sur-Mer for 22,442 soldiers under British command who died during D-day and Battle of Normandy<br>

Rush Limbaugh, Americas Anchorman and Doctor of Democracy, is known as the pioneer of AM radio. Limbaugh revolutionized the media and political landscape with his unprecedented combination o f serious discussion of political, cultural and social issues along with satirical and biting humor.

In 1946 he was given by decree of the Queen of the Netherlands the Knighthood of the MWO and he would later attend D-Day anniversary parades

My good friend Neil Jackson, vice chairman of the Milford Haven branch of the British Legion, has reminded me of the importance of June 6.

One week from today will be the 77th anniversary of the D-Day invasion when the Allies came ashore at Normandy in 1944.

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) and the French Charles de Gaulle CSG are cooperating at levels of integration rarely achieved in the past. Indeed, "it is at the request of US CENTCOM Commander Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie to the French Army deputy commander for Air-Land operations (SCOAT for ‘’sous chef des opérations aéroterrestres de l’armée de Terre’’) that the French Air Naval Group (GAN for ‘’groupe aéronaval’’) assume command of US Naval Forces Ce...