Meet Rupert!
Most commonly fashioned from burlap, stuffed with straw, and weighted with sand, para-dummies, nicknamed Ruperts,served as a diversion during the airborne phases of the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944.…
The Bedford Boys
The men of Company A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th U.S. Infantry Division were part of the first wave of troops that landed at Omaha Beach at 6:30 a.m. on 6…
Rommel’s Asparagus
Rommel's asparagus (Rommelspargel in German) were 4-to-5-meter-long (13 to 16 feet) logs which the German defenders placed roughly vertically in the fields and meadows of Normandy to cause damage to…
Deadly Doodlebug
Members of the U.S. Navy 2nd Beach Battalion examine several captured radio-controlled German Goliath remote-controlled mines (aka “Beetles” or "Doodlebugs") to see what makes them tick, Utah Beach, 11 June…
Carentan O Carentan
BY LOUIS SIMPSON Trees in the old days used to standAnd shape a shady laneWhere lovers wandered hand in handWho came from Carentan. This was the shining green canalWhere we…