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The bomber that survived because one gunner wouldn’t quit

During World War II, as the Eighth Air Force prepared the skies for Operation Overlord, hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortress ...
Task & Purpose

What’s the strangest name for an operation you participated in?

Operation names. Whether you’re a civilian, veteran or active-duty service member, you’ve encountered them. Some are burned into history — Operation Overlord aka D-Day for instance — while others are ...
The Hour

Operation: Overlord

It seems fitting that Memorial Day has such a close proximity to D-Day. Especially so since this year marks the 70th anniversary of the greatest amphibious operation ever attempted. But just what is ...
Daily Mail

How Princess Elizabeth helped to dupe the Nazis before D-Day: King George VI's daughter inspected troops with her parents to 'bamboozle' Hitler over the time and place for ...

On May 19, 1944, two and a half weeks before the 'Operation Overlord' landings took place, Princess Elizabeth spent the day with her parents inspecting airborne troops in the North of England. The ...
Daily Mail

D-Day minute by terrifying minute: Joltingly vivid account retells how Operation Overlord unfolded as 150,000 Allied troops gambled everything to defeat the Nazis and change ...

Tomorrow marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day at Normandy, the largest seaborne invasion in history, which begun of the liberation of France and western Europe from the Nazis. Operation Overlord, the ...