West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...
was planted by a U.S. army engineer on Omaha Beach, the scene of some of the bloodiest battles when Allied forces stormed the Normandy coast of France in World War II. The Dallas auction house ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A local World War II veteran received France's highest honor on Monday. More than 80 years after he stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, 102-year-old Onofrio "No No" Zicari was ...
Seventy-five years after D-Day, on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, one of the last surviving Native American D-Day veterans remembers his fellow soldiers in his traditional way - with ceremony ...
Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these ... took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy ...
"Omaha beach. We landed on Omaha beach," Martinez said. He fought in Germany, Belgium, Holland and France. "Lost a lot of sleep, lot of food, hungry, wet, it wasn't bad though after you sit around ...