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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...