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The D-Day Landings. June 6, 1944
This 71-second video offers a visceral look into one of the most monumental days of the 20th century: the Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. Known as D-Day, this operation marked the beginning of the end of Nazi occupation in Western Europe. Over 150,000 troops from Britain, Canada, the…
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FREE ACCESS-History Daily-June 26, 2025
Today’s Photographs – Enjoy!!! Image: An Armenian woman is seen kneeling beside her dead child in a field within sight of help and the safety of Aleppo, Syria, during the Armenian Genocide, 1915. #ArmenianGenocide https://amzn.to/4kZljyT Image: Two students sharing a rocking chair at Macalester College, Minnesota. 1890s. #America1890s https://amzn.to/4lpOZFm Both images: Mata Hari – The…
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World War II color footage of the Liberation of Paris, August 1944
https://www.loc.gov/item/2020600751/? The United States Army Signal Corps Special Coverage Unit accompanied the Free French troops as they enter Paris. Crowds of French civilians wave and welcome the troops and military vehicles as they pass. General de Gaulle and General Leclerc meet General von Choltitz for the official surrender of the Germans. Special Coverage Unit members…
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Madeleine Riffaud – July 23, 1944.
“Resistance is attacking those that are stronger than you. Terrorism is for the weak.” 80 years ago, on July 23, 1944. “I had to shoot a German NCO on the Solférino bridge in Paris.Well, he went down like a sack of wheat. He uttered no cry. Maybe he was a good guy, maybe he was…
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The Life of Joseph Sadi-Lecointe
From flying pioneer to speed records, and finally death at the hands of the Gestapo – the story of Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, who died 80 years ago this day, July 14, 1944, after weeks of torture by the Nazis. Born in the Somme village of Saint-Germain-sur-Bresle (80703) on 11 July 1891, Joseph later went to school…
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French Resistance Fighter Micheline Blum-Picard during World War II
In the summer of 1944, 18-year-old Micheline Blum-Picard was busy working with a group of Resistance fighters deep behind the fighting in Normandy, but her clandestine work had begun two years before, when she was just 16. Born in Paris in 1923, Micheline became fluent in English by going to summer language camps in Britain.…
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After the Russian Tsar’s denunciation of the French Continental System, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ordered his Grande Armee to invade Russia. June 24, 1812.
Image: Napoleon and his staff at Borodino. (Public Domain) On this day in history, following the Russian Tsar’s denunciation of the French Continental System, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ordered his Grande Armee, the most significant European military force ever assembled to that date, into Russia. This massive army, featuring nearly 600,000 soldiers, included troops from…
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