D-Day Landing Memorial and Beach at Utah Beach We’ll begin our journey at a memorial dedicated to the French soldiers who returned to fight as part of Free France —the government-in-exile led ...

Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at the age of 110. Rose participated in the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, and was part of the division that liberated the Bergen ...

Tolley Fletcher was a 19-year-old U.S. Navy gunner's mate when Allied Forces undertook the D-Day mission to invade France, a decisive battle in the European theater during World War II.

Anthony Grant, 105, was drafted into the Army in 1942 and served in a segregated unit during the war. Assigned to the 534th Quartermaster Battalion, his unit landed in Normandy 10 days after D-Day ...

Just after 3:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944, D-Day began. It was the first day of the Allied invasion of France and marked a turning point in World War II.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse ...

Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman, who died in 2015 at age 93, will be honored with all of the other U.S. Army Rangers who served during World War II during a special ceremony in the nation's Capitol ...

World War II veteran Onofrio Zicari , 96, connected with the family of friend Donald E. Simmons, who died on D-Day, after a relative saw his story on "World News Tonight With David Muir" last week.

BERN TWP., Pa. - It is called Placid Lassie and it is on full display this World War II Weekend at Reading Regional Airport in Bern Township. "This is a 1943 C-47," said Robert Sabbatino, co-pilot ...