On June 6th 1944, the allied forces landed on the Omaha Beach in Normandy, breaking through the Nazi’s Atlantic wall. At huge cost they turned the tide of World War II and began the liberation of Europe: a moment of time forever immortalised as D-Day. US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron led the 80th anniversary commemorations in Norma ... Show More
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi
The Iranian peoples' call for freedom was heard all over the world, but has a bloody crackdown crushed the uprising? Shirin Ebadi was Iran's first female judge, but was demoted following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But she kept advocating for women and human rights, and in 2003, ... Show More
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Desembarco de Normandía: el día que cambió la historia
<p>El 6 de junio de 1944, cientos de miles de soldados aliados <strong>desembarcaron en cinco playas francesas</strong>. Supuso <strong>la mayor operación militar anfibia</strong> nunca vista y se llamó, en clave, <em>operación Overlord</em>. 80 años después del Día D, analizamos ... Show More
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Jun 2024
Remembering D-Day 80 Years Later
<p>On D-Day, June 6, 1944, 160,000 troops participated in the invasion of Normandy. Today just a few thousand of these veterans are still alive, with the youngest in their late nineties. As their voices, and those of the million combatants and leaders who swept into motion across ... Show More
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Jun 2024
Captured, injured, in the control bunker: Veterans remember D-Day 80 years on
This week marks 80 years since the D-Day landings, a key turning point of World War II. Sky News has spoken to some of the few remaining veterans who were involved in the Normandy landings about their memories of that day. <br /> <br />Host Niall Paterson explores the stories o ... Show More
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