D Day

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• 6/2/19
  

  What I’m Reading: An Interview With Historian Mark Weisenmiller

  by Erik Moshe

  "Historians should have perseverance, a strong set of eyes, and an unimaginably long reading list."

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• SOURCE: WWD
  4/21/19
  

  Author Sarah Rose Writes the Women’s History of World War II With ‘D-Day Girls’

  Rose, who wrote "For All the Tea in China" in 2011, was inspired by her personal connections to the military for "D-Day Girls."

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/22/19
  

  Why Gen. Eisenhower Threatened to Quit Just Before D-Day

  Before the invasion, the Allied commander was at odds with air force officers and Churchill over a controversial plan.

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• 3/10/19
  

  How the Allies Won on D-Day

  by Giles Milton

  A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown and unheralded members of the Allied – and Axis – forces.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/6/19
  

  D-Day, for the historically challenged

  A Louisiana congressman just compared border crossers to Allied forces storming the beaches at Normandy.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-29-2018
  

  British Design for D-Day Stamp Gets Address Wrong by 8,000 Miles

  An error in a design for a stamp to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day — it showed American troops on the wrong beach, in Asia instead of Europe — has spurred an apology to veterans and their families.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-29-18
  

  A D-Day Plane Lost for Years Is About to Fly Again

  It took two eagle-eyed historians to track down the plane that led hundreds of Allied aircraft into Normandy during World War II.

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• 6-5-16
  

  The D-Day Myth Winston Churchill’s Responsible for

  by Craig L. Symonds

  It’s about the role of Mulberries in the invasion and it’s just plain misleading.