Julius Shoulars is 94 and resides in a cozy second-floor apartment in a Virginia Beach retirement community. During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain ...

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 ...

Eighty years since the D-Day invasion of Normandy ... three current Navy sailors relayed the stories of three veterans who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Chandler, who served aboard a British motor torpedo boat during the invasion of Normandy that began June ... U.S. Army ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of ... were killed in the invasion. Goss knows he was one of the lucky ones to make it back home. He traveled to Normandy with his ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy ... advance upon the beaches of France in ...

As time passes fewer from the Greatest Generation are around to share their stories. Among veterans, Wayzata resident Philip Harder, 88, belongs to an even more select group – those who were ...

Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the ... For more information about the beaches and D-Day memorials and museums, visit the Normandy Tourism website.

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these lost their lives during the D-Day invasion. There's also a memorial ...

There are no showtimes for this date. June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through ...