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Navy clears Black sailors unjustly punished after 1944 deadly blast
Surviving Black sailors of the Port Chicago explosion had to pick up human remains and clear the blast site while white officers were granted leave.
By Tara Copp
How Gustav the pigeon broke the first news of the D-Day landings
Gustav flew for five hours and 16 minutes across a distance of 150 miles to deliver the news, amid darkened skies and a headwind of about 50 mph.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
The officer who stormed Normandy with nothing but a cane and pistol
One NCO recalled seeing Roosevelt on the beach 'with a cane in one hand, a map in the other, walking around as if he was looking over some real estate.'
‘What they left behind’: Ernie Pyle recalls the carnage of Omaha Beach
The story of D-Day as told by what one war correspondent saw left on the beaches.
By Ernie Pyle
A personal account of a paratrooper who jumped into Normandy on D-Day
Lt. Col. Gerhard Bolland, an 82nd Airborne Division officer, described what it was really like to parachute during the invasion of Normandy.
By Gerhard L. Bolland