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 ...

Goss, wearing a World War II baseball cap and a red ... forget that moment,” Jamison said of her experience at the Normandy cemetery. “It was emotional. I thought about how it feels when ...

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

Wolfe, 20, of Liberal, Missouri, killed during World War II, has been accounted ... and they were interred in Normandy American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Normandy ...

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 ...

The American Cemetery ... to Normandy's unpredictable weather, you'll want to dress in layers (no matter the time of your visit) and bring rain gear, according to past visitors. World War II's ...

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 ...

About 30 students visited Normandy, France in June for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day attacks. They visited Omaha Beach, as well as a cemetery where thousands of Americans were buried after the ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place ... that help provide context for the battle sites. The American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer and the Pointe-du-Hoc bomb craters are ...