Sometimes, a flight means more than merely transporting a person from one city to another. “Why We Dream,” a feature documentary that screens today at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicles the moving story of the Normandy Legacy Flight,

The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one town among hundreds on a map that needed to be taken from the occupying Germans in the slow,

Members of an American landing unit help their exhausted comrades ashore during the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944. The men reached the zone code-named Utah Beach, near Sainte Mere Eglise, on a life raft after their landing craft was hit and sunk by German coastal defenses.

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We told you recently that six vocalists from Bend were traveling to France to take part in several events commemorating D-Day commemoration events June 3–9 in Normandy, France, with a final stop to perform in Paris.

Tonight, Jean Mackin introduces us to some local high school students who traveled to see the beaches of Normandy, France where so many lost their lives during WWII. They speak about how dedicated they are to remembering the service members from NH who made the ultimate sacrifice.

The memorial was the vision of D-Day veteran and Virginia Guardsman J. Robert “Bob” Slaughter, who stormed Omaha Beach with the 116th Infantry and later championed its creation. The Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters in Richmond now bears his name.

Normandy is beautiful, serene and peaceful, a stark contrast to the great upheaval and turmoil of the day. The time I spent in Normandy was truly sobering and also filled me with a great sense of gratitude for the immense courage and sacrifice of those who landed that fateful day of June 6, 1944.