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 ...
DUKW (or ‘Duck’) amphibious truck, outfitted with an extension ladder to scale cliffs in northern France and then rain down suppressive fire on the German defenders.
Peter Ewler, a bomb disposal expert, greeted us at his bunker near the Oder River on the Polish/German border. Once inside, he asked me to pick an artillery shell out of a metal-wire bin ...
This modern video shows how Normandy’s beaches look today, highlighting some of the remaining landmarks and structures from the massive WWII battle. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody will ...
After the fierce battles in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, the remaining German Army units in Normandy were in full blown retreat for the relative safety of the eastern bank of the River Seine.
As a private first class assigned to G Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, part of the 8th Infantry Division, he went ashore at Utah Beach, Normandy, and fought in France, Luxembourg ...