60 years later, Belgians mark Battle of the Bulge
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BASTOGNE, Belgium -- Amid snow flurries and a chilling wind, Belgium's King Albert II honored US soldiers who died fighting Nazi Germany 60 years ago in the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle for American forces in war.
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Hundreds of veterans, led by the king of Belgium, took part in the event that began with a military vehicles' parade.
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The tears, the joy and the euphoria that ushered in the liberation of Paris 60 years ago Wednesday were on the agenda of a grandiose fete meant to help Parisians relive the day they threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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BRUSSELS -- An elder statesman of French literature who fought for the Resistance in World War II is gearing up to do battle again, in Brussels: Maurice Druon, 89, is campaigning to make French the supreme language of legal documents in the European Union.
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Brig. Gen. Dany Van de Ven, the Belgian defense attache here, told U.S. veterans this week that his nation is honored to remember their sacrifices during the Battle of the Bulge 60 years ago.
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Sixty years after the historic Yalta conference, its repercussions can still be felt throughout Europe.
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For the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation, the Buchenwald Memorial plans to offer its first souvenirs to visitors.
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ABOARD THE CHARLES DE GAULLE -- France yesterday honored soldiers, including tens of thousands of Africans, who staged an assault on the French Riviera 60 years ago to break the Nazi grip -- one of the least-remembered military operations of World War II.
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The German city of Dresden paid its respects to the tens of thousands of people killed in the Allied firebombing here 60 years ago.
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Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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During the Battle of the Bulge, which started 60 years ago today, Pvt. Joe Manoni made one of those fateful, almost psychic, decisions.
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Rep. John Boozman, R-Rogers, is in Europe this week to attend ceremonies commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in Germany.
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He&#39;s recalling the bitterly cold weather and the sounds of battle 60 years ago when a major battle was fought in Belgium. &quot;I don&#39;t like loud noises,&quot; said Watson, then a 19-year-old squad leader in the 87th Division.
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OOSTERBEEK, Netherlands - Sixty years ago, the skies above the Dutch countryside filled with the white silk of parachutes of 30,000 Allied troops while tanks rolled up from Belgium along a narrow road that became known as "Hell's Highway."   In the legendary "Market Garden" operation, which began Sept. 17th, 1944, a massive force that was supposed to end World War II found it had attempted to go "a bridge too far."   A ceremony Sunday commemorated the heroic but doomed assault with Dutch schoolchildren raising flowers above their heads before laying them on the graves of the 1,750 Allied soldiers - mostly British - buried in Oosterbeek near Arnhem...
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With the Battle of the Bulge raging in western Europe during World War II, workers at a Brunswick shipyard were determined to deliver one more ship by year's end.
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World leaders gather in southern Poland to mark 60 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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Nearly 60,000 Protestants joined Orange Order marches in Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of a historic victory over Catholic forces.