| 1 | Jun 6, '24 | Dog Green sector, Omaha Beach, now littered with corpses and body parts and where The Bedford Boys have been killed this morning. The deadliest sands on D Day. The exit has still n | 216× | 1.8M | 2.8k | 196 | 273 |
| 2 | Jun 5, '25 | Some 7000 vessels involved in the D Day landings now crowd the English Channel. Pilots look down in awe as they glimpse a vast armada through gaps in clouds. | 150× | 1.2M | 10k | 1.3k | 309 |
| 3 | Jun 6, '25 | Omar Bradley, long after the war, on Omaha where his decisions and planning led to 2,500 US casualties and 900 deaths. | 102× | 847k | 8.9k | 613 | 459 |
| 4 | Feb 22, '23 | RIP, Simone Segouin, 97, died yesterday, proud member of the French resistance, famously photographed by Robert Capa and others in August 1944, aged 18, as she liberated Paris. Nev | 77.4× | 642k | 11k | 2.1k | 149 |
| 5 | Jun 6, '25 | Pointe du Hoc. Now being held - but only just - by 2nd Rangers who'll fight almost nonstop for another 48 hours until relieved. Over 50% are casualties. They've scaled cliffs below | 70.7× | 586k | 11k | 1.1k | 363 |
| 6 | Jun 6, '25 | Bloody Omaha. 57 degree water. Nowhere to hide. Medics without morphine, armed only with prayers. Never forget what Americans gave for others here. Over 900 KIA. | 59.4× | 492k | 14k | 1.8k | 174 |
| 7 | Jan 16, '24 | Please like if you agree this is the best WWII documentary series ever made. | 58.1× | 481k | 7.4k | 605 | 231 |
| 8 | Jun 27, '24 | Happy 100th to Charles Shay, last living medic from Omaha Beach on D Day. Photo taken today. @WWIIMemorial | 56.1× | 465k | 30k | 3.2k | 129 |
| 9 | Jun 6, '25 | Twenty years later, the man who said go. | 42.1× | 349k | 8.9k | 665 | 412 |
| 10 | Jun 5, '25 | It's D Day. 4,427 Allied soldiers died today so that generations not even born, like mine, could grow up in freedom. @WWIIMemorial | 38.1× | 316k | 13k | 2.2k | 178 |
| 11 | Jun 29, '22 | RIP Woody Williams, the last surviving MOH recipient from WW2. All gone. All 472. @WWIIMemorial | 37× | 0 | 51k | 8.1k | 422 |
| 12 | Apr 1, '24 | RIP Louis Conter, died today, 102, last survivor of 335 from the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. All gone. @WWIIMemorial | 36.6× | 304k | 9.1k | 1.7k | 129 |
| 13 | Apr 29, '23 | "We live in a free world today because in 1945 the forces of imperfect goodness defeated the forces of near perfect-evil." French consulate official addressing US veterans. So many | 34.7× | 288k | 5.5k | 1k | 138 |
| 14 | Jun 6, '25 | The Canadians, many of them volunteers, pushed furthest inland today. Allies matter. You don't win wars without friends. | 33.2× | 275k | 11k | 1.4k | 374 |
| 15 | Jun 6, '25 | Omaha is now a death zone, as seen from above. Men pinned down along five and a half miles of hell. | 31.9× | 265k | 6.5k | 476 | 450 |
| 16 | Jun 6, '25 | Dog Green, Omaha, where Saving Private Ryan happened. A and B Companies of 116th have been slaughtered. Dozens of bodies wash ashore, the wounded have drowned because the tide is s | 31.8× | 264k | 5k | 445 | 224 |
| 17 | Jun 6, '25 | Dog Green Sector, Omaha Beach, the deadliest place on D Day. 102 from 180 men in A Company 116th died here. @WWIIMemorial | 26.8× | 222k | 9k | 1.2k | 261 |
| 18 | Jun 6, '25 | Michael Daly, dropped out of West Point to become a private, now approaching Omaha, will earn 2 Silver Stars in Normandy, Medal of Honor in April 1945 in Nuremberg as a company com | 24.4× | 202k | 8.5k | 906 | 193 |
| 19 | Jun 5, '24 | The first plane carrying the first Americans to fight on D Day has just left the ground, bound for Normandy. | 22.4× | 185k | 6.6k | 479 | 122 |
| 20 | Jun 5, '24 | The first Americans to fight on D Day, Stick 1 of 502nd PIR pathfinders, photographed around this time 80 years ago. | 20.4× | 169k | 7.7k | 1k | 143 |
| 21 | Jun 6, '25 | Taps for those who today gave their tomorrows for our many todays. Coleville sur Mer graveyard. | 20.2× | 167k | 12k | 1.6k | 213 |
| 22 | Sep 15, '24 | Paying my respects to my late father and to his fellow British who made last stand at Arnhem at the old church in Oosterbeek 80 years ago. This is the most moving place I have been | 19.9× | 165k | 5.8k | 485 | 105 |
| 23 | Jun 5, '25 | Captain Frank Lillyman, the first American to land on D Day, stands at the open door of Plane One. The C-47 is flying so low that his uniform is soaked from sea spray. He's smoking | 18.6× | 154k | 4.2k | 498 | 166 |
| 24 | Dec 7, '24 | Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day at WW2 Memorial right now. | 16.4× | 136k | 14k | 2k | 123 |
| 25 | Apr 30, '23 | Wishing Dachau liberator Dan Dougherty, C Co., 157th, 45th Div., 98, all the best as he attends commemorative ceremonies in Germany. He was just 19 when he entered Dachau. Safe tra | 16.3× | 135k | 1.5k | 155 | 6 |
| 26 | Apr 30, '23 | Looking forward to hanging out with 98-year-old Charles Shay, photographed here yesterday, thought to be last living Omaha Beach medic from Big Red One, and Korean War veteran. @WW | 16× | 133k | 1.7k | 208 | 8 |
| 27 | Jun 5, '24 | With the last living officer from Omaha Beach, Major General John Raaen, 102 years old. 80 years ago, he was a 22-year-old captain leading the Headquarters Company of the 5th Range | 15.1× | 126k | 7.3k | 814 | 94 |
| 28 | Jun 6, '24 | The words inscribed inside the chapel at Coleville sur Mer graveyard where 9387 Americans lie in peace today. | 15.1× | 125k | 4.3k | 608 | 98 |
| 29 | May 8, '23 | WW2 vets this morning at VE Day commemorations @WWIIMemorial | 14.3× | 118k | 1.8k | 209 | 4 |
| 30 | Jun 5, '24 | 34 Bedford Boys in A Company, 116th Infantry Regiment, have left England. 19 will be dead in less than 24 hours. | 14.2× | 117k | 3.1k | 435 | 73 |
| 31 | Jun 5, '24 | 80 years ago at this time. Allied Supreme Commander, Dwight Eisenhower, talking about fishing with Lt. Wallace Strobel, E Company, 502nd PIR, with Number 23. The photograph was tak | 13.6× | 113k | 3.5k | 531 | 71 |
| 32 | Apr 29, '25 | Lt Colonel Felix Sparks, The Liberator, fires his pistol to stop his men killing the SS at Dachau. | 13.3× | 111k | 2.5k | 224 | 202 |
| 33 | Jun 6, '24 | Celebrating Allied success on D Day with Norman Shay, last living medic from Omaha Beach. Charles turns 100 this June 27th. | 12.7× | 105k | 6.3k | 396 | 63 |
| 34 | Apr 9, '23 | RIP Ben Ferencz, 103, the last Nuremberg trials prosecutor. @WWIIMemorial | 11.8× | 98k | 1.7k | 224 | 8 |
| 35 | Jun 5, '24 | Captain Frank Lillyman, a pathfinder from the Screaming Eagles, has just become the first American to land in Normandy on D Day. | 11.8× | 97k | 4.8k | 370 | 109 |
| 36 | Sep 15, '24 | Bullet-holed bible in 1000-year old church where best of us Brits fought to bitter end 80 years ago after nine days of hell at Arnhem. | 11.3× | 93k | 2.6k | 212 | 58 |
| 37 | Dec 21, '23 | RIP George Patton. Died today, aged 60. One of the greatest generals in US history. @WWIIMemorial | 11× | 91k | 2.2k | 315 | 24 |
| 38 | Jun 6, '24 | Where the first Americans broke out on Utah this morning. | 10.9× | 90k | 2.9k | 223 | 61 |
| 39 | Sep 23, '24 | This is why the Dutch will never forget. We should do the same in the US. | 10.7× | 88k | 3.4k | 341 | 40 |
| 40 | Jun 5, '25 | Churchill will not sleep tonight. He tells his wife, Clementine: "Do you realize that by the time you wake up in the morning, twenty thousand men may have been killed?" He is manic | 10.2× | 85k | 3.6k | 360 | 86 |
| 41 | May 27, '23 | Not often you get to raise a toast with 1932 Armagnac to the US Army with Charles Shay, last living medic from Omaha Beach on D Day. In Normandy just now. @WWIIMemorial | 10.0× | 83k | 2k | 198 | 7 |
| 42 | Jun 5, '25 | Toasting the incredible life of Charles Shay, 100, the last living medic who saved lives on Omaha Beach, now crossing the English Channel with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st ID, b | 9.5× | 79k | 5.5k | 627 | 50 |
| 43 | Jun 6, '25 | 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 t | 9.5× | 78k | 2.6k | 407 | 223 |
| 44 | Jun 6, '25 | Robert Capa's amazing shot was taken around this time. Note the soldiers pinned down on the beach. 900 Americans were killed on Omaha. Capa survived and his images are the iconic p | 9.2× | 77k | 3.5k | 689 | 151 |
| 45 | Jun 6, '24 | Remembering the Niland brothers, inspiration for the movie Saving Private Ryan, lying side by side in Normandy today. 44 other sets of brothers are side by side among the 9387 dead | 9.2× | 76k | 5.1k | 656 | 99 |
| 46 | Jun 2, '25 | Rangers begin their journey toward Omaha Beach today in 1944. @WWIIMemorial | 8.5× | 70k | 2.3k | 242 | 26 |
| 47 | Jun 6, '25 | Why as a Brit I tell my American son always to hold his head high. U.S. troops bound for Omaha. Most will be killed or wounded today. | 8.3× | 69k | 1.8k | 148 | 41 |
| 48 | Sep 15, '24 | A Bridge Too Far…80 years later. Never felt so English. 🏴 | 8.1× | 67k | 2.7k | 241 | 64 |
| 49 | Jun 7, '25 | Where the first Americans got off Bloody Omaha. | 8.0× | 66k | 3.6k | 354 | 239 |
| 50 | Jun 6, '25 | Easy Red, Omaha. Almost low tide. Several hundred yards of sand to cross under unrelenting machine gun fire. The 16th Inf. Reg. has been torn apart with hundreds wounded. Small gro | 7.8× | 65k | 2.4k | 218 | 53 |
| 51 | Feb 19, '25 | One in three of the Marines who landed on Iwo Jima 80 years ago were killed or wounded. | 7.8× | 64k | 3.7k | 564 | 91 |
| 52 | Jun 5, '24 | Ike is headed to meet with the 101st Airborne to wish them luck. He has been warned that more than two thirds will be killed or wounded within 24 hours. | 7.4× | 61k | 1.6k | 96 | 41 |
| 53 | Jun 6, '24 | With Charles Shay, last living medic from Omaha Beach, pulling wounded men from bloody shallows right now 80 years ago. He turns 100 on 27 June. | 7.3× | 61k | 6k | 588 | 53 |
| 54 | Jun 5, '25 | Captain John Raaen, the last living officer who saw action on Omaha Beach on D Day, now aged 103, is heading with his fellow 5th Rangers out into the English Channel. @WWIIMemorial | 6.9× | 57k | 2.2k | 311 | 30 |
| 55 | Jun 3, '25 | I'll be live-tweeting D-Day beginning Thursday, 5 June. Minute by minute, at key points in the invasion. Stay tuned. @WWIIMemorial | 6.9× | 57k | 2.1k | 251 | 91 |
| 56 | Jun 5, '25 | Lucille Hoback Boggess, now 95 years old, waits in Bedford, Virginia, for news of an invasion. Both her brothers, two of 34 Bedford men scheduled to land in the first wave on Omaha | 6.3× | 52k | 3.2k | 502 | 83 |
| 57 | Sep 4, '24 | RIP Guy Prestia, Sicily to Dachau. 102. One of The Liberator’s last surviving warriors. | 6.1× | 51k | 2.2k | 289 | 36 |
| 58 | Jun 11, '24 | Where first Americans broke off Omaha on D Day. | 6.0× | 49k | 2.1k | 219 | 90 |
| 59 | Jun 5, '25 | There are 40,000 German soldiers in the landing areas. 150,000 Allied ground troops are fast approaching. Not one German is aware of this right now. By the time the Battle of Norma | 5.9× | 49k | 2.1k | 300 | 66 |
| 60 | Jun 5, '25 | At the airfield in England where the first US troops to see combat on D Day - pathfinders from the 101st Airborne - are now seated in a C-47, Plane One, waiting to take off. | 5.9× | 49k | 3.4k | 231 | 53 |
| 61 | Jun 6, '24 | Robert Capa, greatest war photographer of 20th Century, at rear of landing craft, returning now with some of first wounded from Omaha. His will become the greatest images of D Day. | 5.8× | 48k | 2k | 275 | 68 |
| 62 | Jun 9, '25 | Prayers for the fallen, on Omaha Beach. By the great Robert Capa. | 5.8× | 48k | 3.4k | 322 | 77 |
| 63 | Jun 8, '24 | Happy 95th birthday, Lucille Hoback Boggess, holding pictures of her brothers, both killed on D Day. | 5.3× | 44k | 4.5k | 410 | 24 |
| 64 | Jun 13, '24 | Once the crowds have gone. A Bedford Boy lying in peace. And only the sounds of French children. | 5.2× | 43k | 1.9k | 168 | 32 |
| 65 | Dec 7, '23 | Last of the greatest. Some of the less than 120 thousand members of Greatest Generation who served in WW2.@WWIIMemorial on Pearl Harbor Day. | 5.2× | 43k | 2k | 299 | 14 |
| 66 | Apr 7, '23 | Remigo Cabacar, 97, joined navy aged 16, served in WW2 and Korea, father survived Bataan death march. He’s right now at @WWIIMemorial for 81st anniversary of fall of Baatan with ot | 5.2× | 43k | 1.5k | 192 | 2 |
| 67 | Jul 5, '22 | And then there were none. RIP Brad Freeman, last surviving member of E Company, last of the legendary Band of Brothers.@WWIIMemorial | 5.1× | 0 | 6.8k | 1.3k | 70 |
| 68 | Feb 18, '25 | Patton's troops crossed the Siegfried Line 80 years ago today. | 5.1× | 42k | 2.3k | 215 | 35 |
| 69 | Jun 5, '25 | The first Americans, pathfinders from 101st Airborne, are on the ground. Here I explain where they landed. | 5.0× | 42k | 1.7k | 193 | 105 |
| 70 | Jun 5, '25 | The first plane, carrying the very first Americans to fight to defeat evil and liberate on D Day, is now lifting off into the English twilight. It is 9.50 pm in England. @WWIIMemor | 4.9× | 41k | 2.1k | 279 | 73 |
| 71 | Jun 6, '24 | Retiring the flag at Coleville sur Mer where 9387 Americans rest in peace. | 4.9× | 41k | 3.7k | 385 | 42 |
| 72 | Nov 21, '23 | Guts. Approaching Omaha, D Day. | 4.7× | 39k | 1.6k | 151 | 7 |
| 73 | Sep 21, '24 | Patton’s final resting place just now. Last Battles tour. @WWIIMemorial | 4.7× | 39k | 1.9k | 191 | 34 |
| 74 | Jun 6, '24 | At Pointe du Hoc, the Rangers are in a desperate battle for survival that will last almost two more days. | 4.7× | 39k | 1.6k | 132 | 19 |
| 75 | Feb 19, '25 | Two hours after the first wave landed, Marines struggled to get off the black sands of Iwo Jima 80 years ago. Almost 7000 will die before the island is secured. | 4.6× | 38k | 2k | 283 | 38 |
| 76 | May 26, '24 | Bedford Boy Roy Stevens, Omaha Beach, remembering his identical twin brother Ray, killed 6 June 1944. | 4.6× | 38k | 2.7k | 331 | 12 |
| 77 | Jun 8, '24 | The boys of Pointe du Hoc today after one of the most epic stands in all military history. | 4.5× | 37k | 2.1k | 157 | 45 |
| 78 | Jun 6, '24 | Never forget. Thanks for following me this amazing day. | 4.5× | 37k | 1.8k | 79 | 20 |
| 79 | Jun 5, '25 | A red light flashes on in Plane One. 4 minutes until the first Americans jump on D Day. | 4.4× | 36k | 1.8k | 115 | 25 |
| 80 | Jun 28, '20 | "I was a Combat Engineer. Isn’t that ridiculous? The two things I hate most in the world are combat and engineering." Happy 94th birthday corporal Mel Brooks, Battle of Bulge Jewis | 4.0× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.1k | 28 |
| 81 | Jun 5, '25 | The radio message goes out. Ham and Jam. Ham and Jam. The code words for two bridges. Pegasus Bridge and another have been seized. The first critical mission of D Day is a success. | 3.9× | 33k | 1.6k | 162 | 40 |
| 82 | Sep 16, '24 | Honoring Major General Maurice Rose, highest ranking Jew and US officer killed by enemy fire in WW2. | 3.9× | 32k | 1.6k | 121 | 15 |
| 83 | Jun 5, '24 | Major John Howard has just ordered a radioman to send out the first code words for the first successful operation on D Day - "Ham and Jam". In just 10 minutes, Pegasus Bridge and a | 3.8× | 31k | 2.1k | 228 | 30 |
| 84 | Sep 18, '24 | Flowers and respects paid 80 years later at Arnhem Oosterbeek cemetery. Two Brits from the battle in September 1944 were buried today. | 3.8× | 31k | 1.9k | 165 | 12 |
| 85 | Jun 8, '24 | Pure guts and grit. Rangers at Pointe du Hoc after a relief force reached them this morning and finally ended their nightmare of combat since June 6th. From 225 men who scaled the | 3.6× | 30k | 2.3k | 274 | 43 |
| 86 | Mar 18, '25 | All gone. Last pilot, John Hemingway, who fought in Battle of Britain, passes aged 105. @WWIIMemorial | 3.5× | 29k | 2.1k | 249 | 35 |
| 87 | Apr 14, '25 | All gone. The men from the Liberator's 157th Infantry Regiment who set Europe free, fighting from Sicily to Dachau, eighty years ago. | 3.2× | 26k | 2k | 267 | 35 |
| 88 | Jun 6, '25 | Theodore Roosevelt Jr., 56, has staggered ashore in the first wave on Utah, now directing troops inland along causeways. "The war starts here," he has declared after being mislande | 3.1× | 26k | 1.8k | 190 | 40 |
| 89 | Jun 6, '24 | Michael Daly, 19, MOH recipient, has just fought his way ashore on Omaha Beach. Star of my book, Against All Odds. | 2.9× | 24k | 1.7k | 128 | 48 |
| 90 | Jun 7, '24 | Omaha Beach today, 80 years ago, by the great Robert Capa. | 2.9× | 24k | 1.8k | 133 | 30 |
| 91 | Feb 20, '25 | Eighty years ago, 332 hospital corpsmen were killed in action or died of their wounds during the 36-day Battle of Iwo Jima. @WWIIMemorial | 2.8× | 23k | 1.7k | 265 | 23 |
| 92 | Jun 7, '24 | Remembering James Earl Rudder, wounded twice, still holding Pointe du Hoc today, still leading a fast dwindling band of his men against the odds. | 2.8× | 23k | 2k | 166 | 19 |
| 93 | Feb 19, '25 | Remembering Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, MOH recipient, killed today on Iwo Jima eighty years ago. @WWIIMemorial | 2.7× | 22k | 2k | 250 | 13 |
| 94 | Jun 6, '24 | Remembering Roy Stevens, a Bedford Boy, who lost his twin brother today. | 2.4× | 20k | 1.8k | 109 | 13 |
| 95 | Jun 6, '24 | Lt. John Spalding, E Company 16th Infantry, has led the first break out from Omaha Beach and is now headed inland, “an angel on each shoulder.” | 2.3× | 19k | 2.1k | 147 | 20 |
| 96 | Jun 6, '24 | Remembering Bettie Wilkes, lost her husband, Master Sergeant John Wilkes, on Omaha Beach today. | 2.3× | 19k | 1.5k | 128 | 21 |
| 97 | Jun 7, '24 | Remembering Jim "Pee Wee" Martin, 506 PIR, 101st Airborne, fighting today in the hedgerows with 41 more days to go. Also jumped into Holland. His final jump was at age 99 before hi | 2.1× | 18k | 1.9k | 131 | 13 |
| 98 | Nov 8, '22 | The first. Eighty years ago almost to the hour the first American boys began the long bloody quest to set millions free and defeat Nazism during Operation Torch. @WWIIMemorial | 1.4× | 0 | 1.9k | 275 | 26 |
| 99 | Jun 13, '20 | Michael Daly, resigned from West Point, which he loathed for its hazing, to go fight as a private in WWII. Received MOH aged 21 as a captain after leading men to heart of Third Rei | 1.1× | 0 | 1.5k | 257 | 26 |
| 100 | Oct 15 | TO THE LAST BRIDGE I'm following the Allies all the way to the Rhine...and to victory. Please subscribe to my Substack for daily in-depth reports from the battlefield, live coverag | 0.4× | 3.2k | 174 | 19 | 8 |
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