alex kershaw
@kershaw_alex
NY Times best-selling author of The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, #TheLiberator etc. Public speaker, journalist and tour leader. Historian @WWIIMemorial
RIP Woody Williams, the last surviving MOH recipient from WW2. All gone. All 472. @WWIIMemorial
First reel from Fastpast - new fast films - reels - on WWII etc. Stay tuned.
Street fighting men from 37th Inf. Div. during battle for Manila, which began today in 1945. Over a thousand Americans would be killed in the month-long battle. Some 250,000 civilians would be casualties with 100k killed. @WWIIMemorial
80th Anniversary of WWII Haydn Williams Legacy Lectures Conference wwiimemorialfriends.org/haydn-williams…
80th Anniversary of WWII Haydn Williams Legacy Lectures Conference wwiimemorialfriends.org/haydn-williams…
Join us! This August. Check this out below. 80th Anniversary of WWII Haydn Williams Legacy Lectures Conference wwiimemorialfriends.org/haydn-williams…
Top Ten Books Read In WWII wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten-b…
Prayers for the fallen, on Omaha Beach. By the great Robert Capa.
Gravediggers. Robert Capa's incredible photo of POWs burying Americans killed on Omaha Beach in the first American graveyard, just off the beach.
Great Americans today.
Righteous warriors. Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment who received the DSC for actions on D Day. Ike thanks them for their service and sacrifice.
It's dark now in Normandy. D Day draws to a close. The Allies are ashore, but the beachhead is fragile and will soon come under vicious, sustained attack. Here's a quick run over the numbers on this historic day. Thanks for following my coverage these last 24 hours.
One Woman's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/one-woman…
So many intense memories today, of warriors and widows, all now gone. I think of the words inscribed on the wall of the chapel in the graveyard above Omaha Beach: “Think not only upon their passing. Remember the glory of their spirit.”
The free world erupts in joy at the news that the Allies have landed in Normandy. In Amsterdam, Anne Frank notes in her diary that the best thing about the invasion is the feeling that "friends are on their way." Millions of Europeans dare to hope for freedom, at long last.
Two of my books about today in 1944. To join @WWIIMemorial for a D Day tour, London via Normandy to Paris, contact us at wwiimemorialfriends.org/contact-us
Four WW2 vets at WW2 Memorial commemoration today. @WWIIMemorial
Taps for those who today gave their tomorrows for our many todays. Coleville sur Mer graveyard.