The Army, built for sustained heavy occupation, cannot deploy a brigade in under a month. The Marines, in contrast, are ...
On the 6th of June 1944, D-Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of ...
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Why the Hillman position turned into a massacre
Just hours after landing on Sword Beach, British forces expected to push south toward Caen, but they hadn’t counted on ...
Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on ...
Charles Norman Shay died Dec. 3 at age 101. He was a citizen of the Penobscot Nation who saved fellow soldiers storming Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944.
Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France ...
As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...
Shay was awarded the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded soldiers to relative ...
Shay, who grew up on Indian Island, near Old Town, was an Army medic during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. He ...
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