D-Day
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Clearing the Fog of War July 19, 2019
The success of the British code-breakers at Bletchley Park during World War II has become legendary. The technological challenges they faced were huge. Racing against the clock, men and women like Mavis Batey, Dilly Knox and Alan Turing took messages...
What Was D-Day Like? June 06, 2019
My late uncle Ronald Boyd (1926–77) was present at D-Day, June 6, 1944. He was an eighteen-year-old able seaman on HMS Ajax, a light cruiser of the Leander class, part of the vast armada that assembled to assault the Normandy coastline in the biggest...
One of the Few Surviving Heroes of D-Day Shares His Story June 05, 2019
As world leaders and assorted dignitaries join the throngs of grateful citizens and remembrance tourists in Normandy this year to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, one group in particular will command a special reverence: veterans of the act...
D-Day 75 Years Later June 04, 2019
Among American martial milestones, D-Day, June 6, holds a reverence in our collective memory equaled only by the Battle of Gettysburg and Washington's crossing of the Delaware River—an eminence whose warm glow has deepened as twilight falls over the ...
Revisiting D-Day, Without Niceties December 18, 2018
Extraordinary and excruciating, “Landing on the Edge of Eternity” might be the hardcover version of “Saving Private Ryan“‘s torturous opening minutes. Or a nonfiction reprise of Irwin Shaw's “The Young Lions,” which humanized soldiers on both sides o...
The Five Best Accounts of D-Day December 14, 2018
Norman Smith was a British Cromwell-tank crewman on D-Day, and an unflinchingly honest one in this stark account. Like many veterans of the North African campaigns, he regards Gen. Bernard Montgomery, commander of Allied ground forces during the land...
