In a week of historic liberation dates, we would do well to remember other milestones, from Rome to Warsaw.
The most famous is the 75th anniversary of the landing at Normandy on D-Day—June 6, 1944. It was the largest single operation ever undertaken and involved great complexity in timing between airpower, paratroopers, sea power, and massive landings from the English Channel on to the French Coast. I just dedicated a
There was always a bittersweet feeling for the veterans of the Italian campaign that the gigantic Normandy landing two days later overshadowed their achievements. Another great anniversary this week involves Pope John Paul II and another moment of great importance for freedom and especially for religious liberty. When Pope John Paul II went to Poland, he was greeted by 3 million people for an open-air mass in Warsaw. As Callista and I described in a documentary about that trip,it was this visit which shook the control of the Soviet dictatorship and marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Empire.
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Backstory:D-Day as lived by a Reuters correspondentSeventy-five years ago, as machine gun fire consumed the landing beach in northe...
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Backstory:D-Day as lived by a Reuters correspondentSeventy-five years ago, as machine gun fire consumed the landing beach in northern France and artillery shells burst overhead, Reuters correspondent Doon Campbell struggled to keep the keys of his typewriter free of the exploding earth. Campbell was the first war correspondent from an Allied nation
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World War II veterans return to Normandy for 75th D-Day anniversary93-year-old Royal Navy D-Day veteran sets foot on Juno Beach for the first time in 75 years, paying his respects to the fallen ahead of the invasion's 75th anniversary.
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75 years after D-Day, a former German soldier is worried for EuropeAs the world prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a former German solider said he fears a fraying of the alliances that were created in the wake of the war, which brought peace and stability to Europe.
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