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Vor 15 Stunden · It was the shrapnel’ Imagine growing up in war-torn Sunderland with bombs falling, anti-aircraft guns and nightly air raid sirens. Sunderland man Ron Lawson did.
Vor 15 Stunden · Woodson’s landing craft was struck by an artillery shell as it approached the beach, killing the soldier next to him and seriously wounding Woodson, with shrapnel in his thigh and buttocks. When ...
Vor 15 Stunden · 80 years later, D-Day inspires us. In this June 6, 1944, file photo, U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, gives the order of the day to paratroopers in England prior to boarding their planes to ...
Vor 15 Stunden · Jim Nelson, a lance corporal with the East Yorkshire Regiment, had his 21st birthday on D-Day. Here his grandson, journalist Simon Keegan, tells Jim’s story. As 21st birthdays go it was an ...
Vor 15 Stunden · In his memoirs he describes how his craft took two direct hits as they approached Arromanches beach and a chunk of shrapnel tore through his arm. Sam Currie for D-Day feature. 6th May 2004
Vor 15 Stunden · John wasn’t just heroic during D-Day, but throughout the course of his generation’s war. We are proud to count John as a friend, and we will be dedicating a period of thanks, and a period of remembrance, in our hearts and minds on June 6, 80 years to the day since his participation in the D-Day landings.
Vor 15 Stunden · three IRA volunteers (John Quinn, Dwayne O'Donnell, and Malcolm Nugent), along with a Catholic civilian (Thomas Armstrong), were killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) during a gun attack on Boyle's Bar in Cappagh, County Tyrone. The volunteers arrived in a car as a UVF gang was about to attack the pub. The UVF fired at the car (killing the volunteers) then fired through the window of the ...
