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Welcome to the new D-Day, Normandy and Beyond Articles pages.
Here a growing number of articles concerning the Veterans of World War
II and the war itself. I hope you will enjoy yet another service and
please start to send in your articles.
Add your comments (1) 20.01.2010. 04:35
New footage releasedNew footage releasedNorman G. Igo, shot this wind-up 8mm camera footage of Normandy during Operation Overlord. Also in this video is VE day in Paris, Ally air drops, Ally Bombing, Captured artillery, German POWs, and pontoon bridge crossing/building.
Norman passed away FEB 6, 2007 in Plano, TX. He graduated from Texas Tech with a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1943 and he received a B.S. in Architectural Engineering in 1948 from the University of Texas at Austin.
Read more Add your comments (0) 14.09.2008. 11:47
Well, the holidays are behind us and we now start thinking of what we are planning for the new year. Well It's not too early to think about our 2008 505RCT and Family & Friends reunion this fall. Plans are well underway for another great reunion with our 505 veterans, families and friends. Colorado is the place to be in '08 and Colorado Springs will be the site of our annual get together. Duke Boswell will be our host and he and his committee is already hard at work planning the activities and the meeting site. If you have never been to one of our reunions you are in for a special treat. The reunion at Ft. Bragg this past October was great and this one will be just as good or better. Colorado is a beautiful state and especially the Colorado Springs area.
Read more Add your comments (0) 21.01.2008. 23:27
Charles Chibitty, the last surviving member of the group of 17 who served in World War II as the Comanche "code talkers" died in a Tulsa, Oklahoma nursing home July 20. He was 83. Chibitty was among the 14 Comanches who landed with the D-Day invasion of Normandy Beaches where they reported by radio to division headquarters on the progress of the landings. The Comanche were dubbed code talkers because the American Indian language has no written record, and it was never broken by the Germans during the war.
One of the first messages transmitted in Comanche language during the landings was "right beach, wrong place". It warned soldiers they landed about a half mile from their intended target. Chibitty served with a unit that landed on Utah Beach on June 6, 1944.
Read more Add your comments (2) 20.01.2008. 18:45
Great Britain has paid off the last of the loans it received to rebuild the country after World War II, sixty years ago. The last payment of US$83.25 million was transferred electronically to the United States on the last business day of 2006, along with an additional US$22.7 million to clear a similar debt owed to Canada.
The original loan of US$4.34 billion, equivalent to about $27 billion in today's dollars, was negotiated in 1945 by John Maynard Keynes to protect the country from bankruptcy. Canada contributed US$1.2 billion, or an equivalent of about $7.5 billion today. The loan was required after the U.S. terminated grants in aid to Britain under the Lend Lease Act, signed by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941. On 2nd September 1945, with the decision to terminate aid, some of the goods were still in transit and it was necessary for Britain to arrange new loans to finance reconstruction.
Read more Add your comments (1) 20.01.2008. 18:41
