Two days before D-Day, his vessel left Weymouth for Normandy. He later said of surviving D-Day: 'I never imagined myself being part of the forces which were actually landing on the beaches.

A woman has been arrested after a car crashed into a British World War II memorial in France. The memorial, a Churchill AVRE ...

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

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 ...

In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France ... work as a draftsman for a company that manufactured aircraft landing gear. It was 1941, and tensions between the governments of the ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, he was among the few remaining survivors of the epic Allied invasion ...

The regiment had gained such a high reputation in North Africa that it was selected as one of the four armoured regiments ordered to lead the British assault landings on the Normandy beaches on ...

FORT PIERCE — The city last year canceled the process of awarding a new lease for its North Hutchinson Island property that ...

By allowing China’s forces to bypass rocky or soft beaches unsuitable for heavy ... from the Mulberry Harbours built for the 1944 Normandy landings Credit: Leonard McCombe/Picture Post Mark ...

“The barges are reminiscent of the Mulberry Harbours built for the allied invasion of Normandy during World ... vehicles to and from specialist beach landing craft – or a barge bridgehead.

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an ... Situated about 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest ...