A veteran who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazi occupation has died at the age of 100. Albert Keir was part of the ...
There was a group of American tourists — many of them veterans of units like the 82nd Airborne Division — who had arranged to ...
Let us not lose sight of what it has meant to be an American soldier, sailor, Marine and aviator, and the role Hoosiers ...
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Death of 100-year-old D-Day hero remembered as 'a truly remarkable gentleman' in Derbyshire town where he spent most of his life
Albert Keir, who lived for most of his life in Bakewell, was part of a naval crew that ferried US troops onto Utah beach on D ...
WW2 Wayfinder on MSN
How One U.S. Division Held a Bridge Against a Swarm of Nazis
We revisit the La Fière causeway, one of Normandy’s most critical D-Day battlefields. Between June 6 and 9, 1944, ...
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Story Behind D-Day’s Most Iconic Photograph
On June 7, 1944, in the tiny Normandy village of Turqueville, one photograph captured the spirit of liberation - a 101st Airborne paratrooper holding a captured German soldier at gunpoint. But who ...
Albert Keir, who joined the Royal Navy in 1942 and served for three years, was given the Freedom of Derbyshire earlier this ...
A former British Army sergeant major is the first member of the Parachute Regiment to become a Yeoman Warder (YW) at the ...
A vigil is to be held in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral to mark 85 years since much of the city was devastated in the blitz.
There was a group of American tourists — many of them veterans of units like the 82nd Airborne Division — who had arranged to ...
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