Before Daniel Scharfenberg had even left New Orleans for his trip to France, a monsoon hit the city out of nowhere, flooding the area he was visiting, soaking everyone and everything. He joked ...

There are no showtimes for this date. June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Dozens of World War II veterans are converging on France to revisit old memories, make new ones, and hammer home a message that survivors of D-Day and the ensuing Battle of Normandy, and of other ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

The invasion began in the early hours of June 6 with a huge aerial and naval bombardment of the target area: a 50-mile ...

A Fort Carson soldier had no idea his special assignment to participate in D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations in Normandy, France, meant he'd actually get to meet a 104-year-old D-Day hero.

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

An American World War II veteran shared an emotional ... to the bravery of those who landed in Normandy 80 years ago, invoking Ukraine’s fight against “a tyrant.” For the latest news ...

Forty years later, Ronald Reagan became the first president to speak at Normandy. To honor the ... war effort though he did not himself fight. World War II was a formative experience and memory ...