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Normandy 1944

In the months before D-Day, one overriding question presented itself to the Allied planners: how could the German Army be slowed in its reinforcement of the invasion area? If the Germans won the ‘battle of the build-up,’ then the Allied armies could, conceivably, be driven back into the sea.

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80th Anniversary of VJ Day

August 1945 was The Month That Changed the World. With Japan’s acceptance of the Allies’ Potsdam Declaration, the six-year conflagration that seared three continents came to an end. Historians continually recompute the lives lost, now reckoned upwards of 80 million – approximately 3 percent of earth’s population.

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