Normandy & D-Day
Every name on those beaches, every unit, every untold story from June 6, 1944 and after.
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Normandy & D-Day
The Little Girl Who Collected Flowers on D-Day
A French farmer's daughter gathered wildflowers for every American soldier who reached her family's farmhouse
Six-year-old Marie-Claire Dubois lived on her parents' farm just two miles inland from Omaha Beach. When the fighting reached her village on June 7, 1944, Ameri…
Normandy & D-Day
The Ghost Army: 1,100 Men, Inflatable Tanks, and the War They Won Without Firing a Shot
A top-secret unit of artists and ad men who fooled the Wehrmacht with rubber tanks and fake radio traffic
The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops — the Ghost Army — were a top-secret tactical deception unit of the U.S. Army. Comprising 1,100 men, the unit deployed acro…
Normandy & D-Day
The 6888th: The Black Women Who Cleared 17 Million Pieces of Mail in Three Months
The only all-Black, all-female battalion sent overseas — and they cleared two years of mail backlog
In February 1945, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion — an all-Black, all-female unit of 855 women — arrived in Birmingham, England, to confront a pro…