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🌸 Women at War
The Women Who Mapped Normandy for D-Day
Before D-Day, the US Army's 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, staffed almost entirely by women, created the most detailed aerial maps of Normandy ever produced. Working from RAF bases in England, they analyzed th...
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🏖️ Western Front
The 101st Airborne's Lost Paratrooper
Private John M. K. Steele was one of the most famous paratroopers from D-Day — he famously got caught on the spire of the church in Sainte-Mère-Église, hanging limp and playing dead for hours while the town burned below....