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 ...
West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...
World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...
June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet ... Audiences of all ages will discover from a new perspective how this landing changed the world. Exploring ...
The World War II veteran served in the army. His oldest daughter, Nancy Moats, told 69 News Schermerhorn was just 22 when he ...
At just 16, Kai Gabriel DeBenedictis was able to bring attention to one of France’s lesser-known battles fought in World War II to his school ... the same time as the Normandy landings but ...
The exhibition includes information about ‘Operation Dragoon’ and testimonies from war veterans who witnessed the operation ...
Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges needed ... for the allied invasion of Normandy during World War II,” Sutton observes.
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Walking through New Orleans’s National WW II Museum, you could be forgiven for thinking the Axis powers were defeated ...
Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges needed ... for the allied invasion of Normandy during World War II,” Sutton observes.