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Mervyn Kersh arrived in Normandy aged 19, three days after the start of the D-Day invasion in June 1944, acting as a technical clerk for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps organising vehicle support.

Hero soldier Mervyn Kersh toasted his 100th birthday at a glittering surprise party held by royal appointment. The decorated D-Day veteran stormed ashore on Gold Beach in June 1944, was part of ...

Normandy veteran Mervyn Kersh was surprised with a party for his 100th birthday at the Union Jack Club in Sandell, London PA Kersh told GB News: "The drivers themselves, who belong to it, give their ...

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Should you throw out your black plastic spatula? A recent study that reported alarming levels of several flame retardants in common black-colored plastic items (including cooking utensils, toys ...

The ongoing bird flu outbreak in the U.S. just got a bit more concerning: a person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the first severe case of infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus in ...

In 2022 physicists at the National Ignition Facility in California showed that it is possible to exceed what’s called scientific breakeven, in which a reactor makes more energy than what is ...

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The oldest fossils of bats that “have all the hallmarks of a flying creature” are dated to 52.5 million years ago, says Nancy Simmons, a mammalogist at the American Museum of Natural History ...

The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose by Jonas Olofsson. Mariner, 2025 ($28) As COVID spread across the world in early 2020, people began to report ...