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Southwick House chosen as D-Day nerve centre ''quite plush"
20+ hour, 15+ min ago (604+ words) "It's really humbling just to be there and think of all those huge decisions being made, but then you've got the reality of the people participating on the front lines losing their lives." The fate of the world hinged on…...
Author tells of mother's life in Nazi Germany
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (526+ words) Tammy Borden hold her book Waltraud, which tells the tale of her mother growing up in Nazi Germany. Borden was a featured speaker during a Society for Learning Unlimited program at the Beloit Public Library on Wednesday. BELOIT – Wisconsin author…...
Captain James Martin Stagg, the man who delayed D-Day
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (183+ words) Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of D-Day, spoke to Richard Dimbleby in 1964. The Allied invasion was moved from the 5th to the 6th of June, due to Stagg's advice. The…...
D-Day by Christine Gardner | CBC Books
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (220+ words) Christine Gardner has made the 2026 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for D-Day. Gardner described D-Day as "what it’s like to plan a death." The longlist was selected from nearly 1,900 submissions. A team of 12 writers and editors from across Canada compiled the…...
D-Day weather files unearthed: Documents reveal how forecasts helped secure Allied victory
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (453+ words) Historical documents written by Group Captain James Stagg – the chief meteorologist tasked with advising on weather conditions for Operation Neptune in 1944 – have been discovered at a Royal Navy training unit based at HMNB Devonport. They explain how the accurate weather…...
Screening of 'Remember Warsaw' at Southbury Public Library September 27
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (177+ words) Matthew Mehaffey of the University of Minnesota conducted the performance by the Minnesota Oratorio Society in 2011, and this is the 80-minute version that will be screened. The Remember Warsaw Corporation will host a screening of the oratorio Remember Warsaw at…...
BBC Audio | Witness History | The weather report that changed the date of D-Day
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (399+ words) In 1944, a young Irishwoman called Maureen Flavin drew up a weather report that helped change the course of World War Two. Maureen was working at a post office on the far west coast of Ireland. Her duties included recording rainfall,…...
The Hoopla Over D-Day Is a Way To Conceal Who Really Won the War
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (874+ words) “The Normandy landings were not a gamechanger for the outcome of WWII… The outcome was determined by the Red Army’s victories – mainly, in Stalingrad and Kursk. For three years, the UK and then the US dragged out opening a second…...
Two of Mildenhallâs most highly decorated First World War servicemen, Arthur Leonard and William Butcher, honoured with commemorative plaques at Field Road bus shelter
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (656+ words) Home Mildenhall Article Two of a town’s most highly-decorated First World War servicemen have been honoured with commemorative plaques at a bus shelter close to where they both once lived. Arthur Leonard (1884-1958) and William Butcher (1891-1951), who both received the Distinguished…...
New film tells a little-known story of women slave labourers during the Holocaust
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (845+ words) Throughout her childhood Marisa Fox heard stories about her mother’s escapades as a spy and freedom fighter. Tamar Fromer Fox had told her daughter that in 1939 she managed to escape from Poland to Palestine, where she joined a Jewish paramilitary…...