but the highest-ranking American figure to storm the beaches during the invasion of Normandy. And he did so armed only with a cane and a pistol. A veteran of the First World War, Roosevelt was ...

Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and tanks in history was launched.

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

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 ...

Today marks what would’ve been the 100th birthday of John Robert “Bob” Slaughter, who joined the United States military when ...

But on D-Day morning, he took comfort seeing the massive armada assembled to storm the beaches of Normandy. “Who could harm us with this firepower behind us?” he wrote. Yet the first hours on ...

Foreign nationals storming the beaches of San Diego like it's Normandy. Look at this, boatloads of strange men breaching our beaches and just disappearing into the streets. Not a single other ...

Nathan Baskind was killed in action shortly after D-Day. A year-long investigation found his remains and ensured his reinterment under a Star of David. Growing up, Samantha Baskind’s father ...

President Biden on Thursday hailed the U.S. and Allied forces who stormed the beaches of Normandy 80 years ago, saying they overcame a tyrant who thought “the future belonged to dictators.” ...

80 years ago, more than 150,000 allied service members stormed the beaches of Normandy, trying to change the course of WW II. “As Commander in Chief, it’s the highest honor to be able to ...

You just went and did it.” Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Today, Goss is one of an estimated 100 to 150 World War II veterans ...