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York D-Day veteran Ken Cooke is 100 today and The Press has been sent birthday wishes for him from across the city and country.
The year 1944 was one the world will never forget. In Europe and across the Pacific, World War II raged on with unrelenting ...
A copy of the top secret plan for the liberation of the Channel Islands at the end of World War Two will go up for auction ...
The high-performance, heavily armed, and long-range fighter was able to escort bombers deep into enemy territory and destroy ...
Over 70 percent of foreigners visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum feel that the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of the western Japan city and Nagasaki cannot be justified, a recent Kyodo News ...
D-Day Conneaut 2025, the nation’s largest WWII reenactment, returns to Conneaut Township Park to mark the 81st anniversary of the Normandy invasion.
D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy's bluffs in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok has died.
PARIS (AP) -- D-Day veteran "Papa Jake" Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy's bluffs in 1944 and then garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to ...
D-Day veteran and social media star “Papa Jake” Larson, who survived Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944, has died at 102.
Larson was among the nearly 160,000 Allied troops who stormed the Normandy shore on June 6, 1944, surviving machine-gun fire when he landed on Omaha Beach.