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Why one historian uses social media to remember D-Day in real time

NPR News · Jun 6, 2026, 9:05 PM · Also reported by 3 other sources

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At the National World War II Memorial, historian Alex Kershaw has found an unlikely way to keep D-Day alive: live social media posts timed to the events of June 6, 1944.

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