Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy ... D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest city to the landing site not destroyed in the war.

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

Sitting in his living room to discuss his life, he proudly shared a picture he took with director Steven Spielberg during a D-Day ... More World War II veteran stories:Married near Normandy ...

Elon Musk received short shrift after declaring the English Channel should be re-named after George Washington. One ...

Major Mike Sadler, who died aged 103 at the start of last year, joined the elite Special Air Service after it was formed by David Stirling in 1941.

What are the best war games on PC ... dropped behind enemy lines on D-Day. Levels were designed around historical reconnaissance photographs taken in ‘40s Normandy, and research included ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord ... For more information about the beaches and D-Day memorials and museums, visit the Normandy Tourism website. Normandy American D-Day Beaches Full ...

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June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy ... Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D brings this monumental event to the world's ...

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 ...

A D-Day hero today paid his respects to a fellow Normandy veteran whose funeral was ... his age to join the Royal Navy in the Second World War as a 17-year-old. A year later he found himself ...