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Showing posts with label Omaha Beach. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Normandy and a 75-Year-Old Willys

Above, Jeeps unloading at Omaha Beach in 1944.

In time for the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a vintage Jeep returns to Normandy in an article posted by Hagerty News.

They wrote:
English speakers call it D-day. The French, le jour J. It happened 75 years ago on a blustery Tuesday in 1944 along a 50-mile stretch of rain-swept seashore on France’s northwest shoulder. Aaron Robinson revisits history on the beach in a 75-year old Willys.

To read the article and see some nice photos, go here

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Obama Beach

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a major slip today during D-Day ceremonies at Omaha Beach, France.

He said, "So next to Obama Beach we join President Obama..."

To see a video of this flub:

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