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The performance of a lifetime: Army Reserve band plays at WWII site
November 5, 2024 — The 100th Army Band, a U.S. Army Reserve band stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and nicknamed the “Band of the Century,” performed in a series of concerts in France earlier this year to commemorate the 80th anniversary of U.S. forces landing on D-Day, June 6, 1944, in Normandy. U.S. Soldiers stormed the beaches against intense German fire. The performances also marked the first time the 100th AB has traveled overseas since World War II, when the band was the band for the 100th Infantry Division...

PHOTO GALLERY: 80th anniversary of Normandy D-Day
June 4, 2024 — The U.S. Army and members from European allied nations are participating in the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, supporting local events across Normandy, from June 1-10, 2024, to commemorate the selfless actions by all the allies on D-Day that continue to resonate 80 years later...

7th MSC honors the people of Periers, France
July 27, 2019 — PERIERS, France: On July 27, 1944, Soldiers of the 90th Infantry Division, known as the ‘Tough Hombres’, rolled into the town of Periers, France just 35 kilometers from where they landed seven weeks earlier to be greeted by the remaining citizens as liberators, and the townspeople have never forgotten them. ...

The Great Crusaders: 75 Years Later
June 23, 2019 — The largest amphibious invasion force in the history of the world waited anxiously on the southern coast of Great Britain for days for the go-ahead of Operation Overlord, a daring frontal assault on the heavily defended coasts of Nazi-occupied Normandy. In the months leading up to the attack, military logistical efforts had reached a fever pitch as systems were established to move over 175,000 men to the beach on June 6, 1944. 75 years later at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, La., the men who were there looked back in disbelief at the scale of the undertaking...

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