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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

D-Day

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech on the legacy of Pointe du Hoc, and democracy around the world, Friday, June 7, 2024 as he stands next to the Pointe du Hoc monument in Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
June 7, 2024, 7:06 pm
Biden uses cliffs of Normandy to channel Reagan, call to defend freedom and democracy
US president seeks to contrast the sacrifice of US forces to defeat the Nazis with his political opponent Donald Trump’s increasingly isolationist international policies
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
German and US soldiers at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany honor Nathan Baskind's remains after their excavation. (US Army)
June 7, 2024, 12:55 am
Jewish D-Day veteran to be reburied in Normandy after 80 years in Nazi mass grave
Excavation team led by Operation Benjamin foundation found remains of Nate Baskind, an American-Jewish soldier who died in a POW camp
By Andrew Lapin
French President Emmanuel Macron addresses British D-Day veterans during a commemorative ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy, at the World War II British Normandy Memorial of Ver-sur-Mer, Thursday, June 6, 2024. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP)
June 6, 2024, 2:13 pm
‘Free nations must stand together to oppose tyranny’: Leaders mark 80 years since D-Day
UK’s King Charles leads British event in Normandy as pivotal Allied landing to free Europe from Nazi Germany commemorated by WWII vets, military displays
By Elizabeth Pineau, John Irish and Jeff Mason
US President Joe Biden (R) is welcomed by France's Prime Minister Gabriel Attal (front L) upon arrival at Paris Orly airport near Paris, on June 5, 2024, as he travels to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. (Julien De Rosa/Pool/AFP)
June 5, 2024, 4:34 pm
Biden lands in France to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day, under shadow of Ukraine war
US president set to join French and Ukrainian counterparts, British King Charles III, Canadian PM to remember Allied troops who gave their lives to free Europe from Nazi occupation
By Aurelia End and Stuart Williams
Mervyn Kersh, a Jewish World War II veteran who took part in 1944's Normandy Campaign, at his home in London, Great Britain, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
June 5, 2024, 1:09 am
‘How lucky I am’: UK-Jewish vet, aged 99, prepares to mark 80th anniversary of D-Day
Mervyn Kersh recalls giving out sweets at Bergen-Belsen, near-arrest for skipping non-kosher rations; ‘I could almost say it was a crusade,’ says Normandy campaign veteran
By DANICA KIRKA
Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza (C) joins anti-Israel protesters preparing to march through central London, on May 18, 2024. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP)
June 3, 2024, 6:41 am
French Jews decry Normandy region plan to honor pro-Hamas journalist
Motaz Azaiza to receive Liberty Prize at D-Day event for ‘telling story of those affected by war,’ despite apparent praise for terror group and refusal to condemn October 7
By Canaan Lidor
The portrait of Missak Manouchian is projected on the facade of the Pantheon monument in Paris, France, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
February 22, 2024, 9:09 am
In first, France honors foreign communist WWII resistance fighter
Armenian poet Missak Manouchian, who led dozens of anti-Nazi attacks in Vichy France before he was executed, also first foreigner recognized as having ‘died for France’
By Sylvie Corbet
World War II reenactors gather on Omaha Beach during a commemoration ceremony of the 78th anniversary of D-Day in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2022. (AP/Jeremias Gonzalez)
June 6, 2022, 12:21 pm
Crowds pay tribute to fallen on 78th anniversary of D-Day, with war again in Europe
Veterans and war reenactors return to Normandy, after 2 years of limited activity due to COVID-19 restrictions, to honor Allied soldiers who liberated Europe from Nazis
By Sylvie Corbet and Jeff Schaeffer
Edward Shames, center, hugs Ed McClung, center left, both members of the World War II Army Company E of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne, with veterans Jack Foley, left, Joe Lesniewski, right, and Shifty Powers, far right, at the Library of Congress in Washington, on July 16, 2003. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
December 5, 2021, 8:41 pm
Dead at 99, WWII vet who used cognac from Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest at son’s bar mitzvah
Edward Shames, last surviving ‘Band of Brothers’ officer, was the first member of the 101st Airborne Division to enter Dachau concentration camp
By AP
From left: Manfred Gans (Courtesy of USHMM); Peter Masters (Courtesy of Anson family); Colin Anson (Courtesy of Anson family)
June 17, 2021, 3:24 am
Secret WWII Jewish British military commandos finally come out of the shadows
Declassifying records, author Leah Garrett uncovers amazing story of X Troop, a unit of German-speaking refugee volunteers determined to outwit and outfight the Nazis at all costs
By Renee Ghert-Zand
World War II reenactors gather on Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, June 6, 2021, the day of 77th anniversary of the assault that helped bring an end to World War II. (David Vincent/AP)
June 6, 2021, 4:14 pm
Still under shadow of coronavirus, Normandy commemorates D-Day with small crowds
For 2nd year, anniversary events marked by travel restrictions that prevent veterans or families of fallen soldiers from making trip to France
By Sylvie Corbet
The official opening ceremony of the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer, on the 77th anniversary of D-Day, on June 6, 2021. (Sameer Al-DOUMY / POOL / AFP)
June 6, 2021, 4:14 pm
British memorial to D-Day fallen opens in France
160 standing stones are inscribed with the names of 22,442 men and women who lost their lives during the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France in 1944
By Chloé COUPEAU
Two men in vintage US WWII uniforms walk toward the Les Braves monument at sunrise prior to a D-Day 76th anniversary ceremony in Saint Laurent sur Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2020 (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
June 6, 2020, 11:52 am
The loneliest of D-Day remembrances is marked amid pandemic
Small ceremony held a year after tens of thousands came to Normandy beaches to cheer the dwindling number of veterans and celebrate liberation from Nazi oppression
By Raf Casert
World War II and D-Day veteran Charles Norman Shay, from Indian Island, Maine, salutes the grave of fellow soldier Edward Morozewicz at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
May 8, 2020, 12:38 pm
As world marks VE Day, talk turns again to war, but this time against a virus
‘World War II was created by a madman who thought he could take over control of the world,’ says D-Day veteran, but with COVID-19, ‘we still don’t know why we are dying’
By Raf Casert
US President Donald Trump, right, and French President Emmanuel Macron reach out to shake hands during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, June 6, 2019. (AP/David Vincent)
June 6, 2019, 10:44 pm
Trump lauds ‘unbreakable’ trans-Atlantic alliance as D-Day anniversary marked
US president attends 75th anniversary event where French President Macron tells him ‘America is never as big as when it is fighting for the freedom of others’
By Jerome Cartillier and Joseph Schmid
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