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 ...

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 ...

A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings ... landings in Normandy, northern France. The Distinguished Service ...

From the Eiffel Tower to the palace of Fontainebleau to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the Burnsville Senior High School (BSHS) choir saw plenty and sang proudly in its weeklong trip to ...

World War II Memories: From Omaha Beach to Vienna tells the compelling story of Joseph Gorra, who gives a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of the first wave of soldiers to land on ...

In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy, France, where he suffered a shrapnel wound to his forehead. He was among Gen. George Patton's forces as they relieved the Battered Bastards of ...