NEWS
By Thomas L. Friedman | June 11, 2004
WASHINGTON - There's been some good political news out of Iraq in recent days. The newly installed - and now U.N.-blessed - Iraqi government is made up of some really decent people. There is hope. But it will not be realized if the sort of incident that happened last weekend keeps being repeated. Two American and two Polish employees of Blackwater USA, a security contractor, were killed in an ambush on the main road from Baghdad airport to downtown. Remember a year ago when Saddam Hussein's spokesman, the wacky "Baghdad Bob," claimed that U.S. forces didn't control the airport?
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | June 4, 1997
The 29th Division Association of the Maryland National Guard will conduct a memorial service Friday to commemorate the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944, and a crab feast from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Normandy Room, 3919 E. Lombard St., Baltimore.Information is available from association historian Bernard Nowakowski, 410-276-0426.Pub Date: 6/04/97
TRAVEL
October 14, 2001
On Dec. 7, 2001, 60 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the year-old National D-Day Museum in New Orleans will open its first major expansion. The addition, called the "D-Day Invasions in the Pacific," is a 5,000-square-foot gallery of photos, videos, artifacts, maps and stories about the fighting in and along the Pacific, including Pearl Harbor, so recently called back into our memories. Three days of events will mark the opening, including a parade led by veterans of the Pacific campaign.
NEWS
By Robert A. Erlandson and Robert A. Erlandson,Sun Staff Writer | April 25, 1994
When veterans of the Maryland-Virginia 29th Division stand on Normandy's Omaha Beach in a few weeks remembering their landing there on June 6, 1944, D-day, a tangible piece of the division legend may be on hand -- their commanding general's jeep.From Omaha Beach to the link-up with the Russian Army at the Elbe River in 1945, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt, the 29th's Pattonesque commander, traveled in the jeep, which he called "Vixen Tor" for a hill near the division's training area at Tavistock in southwestern England.
NEWS
By Carl Schoettler and Carl Schoettler,London Bureau | December 26, 1993
SOUTHAMPTON, England -- Southern England is mobilizing again for D-Day, this time for the invasion of 50th-anniversary tourists.From Dorset to Hampshire to Sussex, guides are being trained, tours booked, itineraries mapped, museums spruced up, parades planned, monuments polished, profits projected. About150 separate events are listed in the "official" D-Day guide.President Clinton and Queen Elizabeth II are expected to come with full panoply of ceremony, and so are the heads of 11 other countries and up to a half-million more prosaic visitors.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly and Jacques Kelly,SUN STAFF | June 24, 2002
Arthur L. Flinner, a retired accountant and World War II Army captain who fought at D-Day and later established a military museum in Pikesville, died Thursday of complications after surgery at St. Agnes Health- Care. He was 89 and lived at Charlestown Retirement Community for the past four years. He had resided earlier in the Armagh Village section of Baltimore County. An accountant with Federal Express Money Orders in Glen Burnie and at his son's Craig Flinner Gallery in the Mount Vernon section of downtown Baltimore for the past 20 years, he was born in Cambridge, Mass.