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In 1943, a large manor house near Portsmouth, England, became the headquarters of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the Allied naval commander for D-Day.

Ramsay’s job was to plan for and direct all of the vessels which would transport men and materials to the Normandy beaches.

It was a huge assignment.

Seven thousand ships and landing craft would be used on June 6, 1944, for the initial invasion.

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Reading the paper on Nov. 2, 1944.

British and Canadian forces attacked Walcheren Island, in the Antwerp harbor, yesterday to eliminate German coastal batteries blocking Allied use of the North Sea port.

During the day, American heavy bombers targeted the Ruhr industrial area in Germany, along with rail hubs.

The Army Air Forces announced it now has 74,500 aircraft of all types.

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The wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific,” has been rediscovered nearly 80 years after it was intentionally sunk during a post-World War II naval exercise. The ship, which served both the U.S. and Japanese navies during the war, was located 3,500 feet below the ocean’s surface...

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WWII ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific,’ USS Stewart, rediscovered off California coast after 80 years The wreck of the USS Stewart, a U.S. Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific,” has been rediscovered nearly 80 years after it was intentionally sunk during a post-World War II naval exercise. The ship, which served both the U.S. and Japanese navies during the war, was located 3,500 feet below the ocean’s surface in the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of Northern California...

Very early , 18 Sept 1943, Yolande Beekman arrives in Nazi-occupied France to work as a radio operator for the Special Operations Executive.

The British SOE supported the French Resistance. Wireless was one of the more dangerous roles as German forces could triangulate the position when the operator was signalling.

Beekman was captured in January 1944, and was shot at Dachau concentration camp in September 1944.

Yolande Beekman before being sent to France. She is a white woman with dark hair.

, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

Vera Leigh in her FANY uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.

Very early , 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.

Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.

They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.

photo of Lillian Rolfe. She is a white woman with dark hair
photo of Violette Szabo. She is a white woman with darkish hair