Today marks what would’ve been the 100th birthday of John Robert “Bob” Slaughter, who joined the United States military when ...

The names of 13 veterans from 12 allied countries are being added to the Normandy Memorial Wall to mark 100 ... those involved in the key Second World War battle. Mr Roberts, who was in the ...

Meanwhile, Operation Benjamin worked with the Volksbund, a German war memorial commission that looks ... But ultimately, she said, “I wanted him to be in Normandy” — at the American cemetery ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery ... Many Americans who visit Normandy are partial to this cemetery and memorial in particular.

“It was the war to end all wars but here we are with ... hosted in partnership with the MoD, at the British Normandy Memorial. Register now for one of the Evening Standard’s newsletters.

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Today, Goss is one of an estimated 100 to 150 World War II ... National D-Day Memorial Foundation ...

After the war, the U.S. Army awarded Shay a ... in a park overlooking Omaha Beach, the people of Normandy dedicated the Charles Shay Memorial. The first French monument to honor American Indian ...

How could this be, I wondered, that the United Kingdom was alone among the principal Allied nations of the Second World War not to have a D-Day memorial in Normandy? Partly, I think, it was ...

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