Where History and Heroes  Meet

Featured Guest Speaker

The concentration camp diary 1940-1945 of a courageous German woman (the presenter's grandmother) who risked her life to save others.

INDIANAPOLIS WORLD WAR II ROUNDTABLE - ERNIE PYLE CHAPTER

D-DAY​ / June 6

(Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense, defense.gov)

Remembering D-Day
"The Allied troops who landed in Nazi-occupied France on D-Day successfully executed the largest air, land and sea invasion in history — and they did so amid stakes that couldn't have been higher."


https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Experience/Remembering-D-Day/

US Air Force pilot 2nd Lieutenant Robert Wade Biesecker with his crew of the 569th Bombardment Squadron, 390th Bomb Group, US Eighth Air Force, standing by 'Honey Chile', their B-17 Flying Fortress bomber (serial 42-31027), at RAF Framlingham, a US Eighth Air Force Bomber Command station in England, 18 October 1943.(Photographer: M. McNeil, for Fox Photos. Images courtesy of the Hulton Archive/ Getty Images. Colorized and researched by Benjamin Thomas from Australia).