Peeps’ recent series on Victoria Cross recipients has prompted an intriguing query from a reader about a decorated D-Day hero who gave his life in the bitter fighting just a week after the landings.

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

The resident of MorseLife in West Palm Beach, who turned 100 in June, has lived much of what those films dramatized. In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy ... during a D-Day anniversary ...

The resident of MorseLife in West Palm Beach, who turned 100 in June, has lived much of what those films dramatized. In 1944, he landed on Omaha Beach at Normandy ... with director Steven Spielberg ...

WE HAVE, I THINK, SEVEN MEMBERS FROM THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF ... THEY PLAYED IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, ON THE 75TH AND 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY. AND NOW THEY WILL PLAY TO WELCOME THE 47TH ...

Tansy Forster, who is originally from Magherafelt, has brought her knitted D-Day exhibition to Northern Ireland RAF bombers, beach assaults ... and battles of the 1944 Normandy campaign.

RAF bombers, beach assaults and ... who is now living in Normandy, France. She said The Longest Yarn was a "bonkers idea" to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. "It started off as a topper for ...

John Fischer is a retired Palm Beach County fire captain ... to the foxholes in Bastogne, and Normandy for the 75th and 80th anniversary of D-Day, Fischer and his band have played around the ...

Palm Beach County is set to honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of inspiring events that celebrate his vision of equality, justice and unity. From community ...