May 8 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, but Aleida Gehrels remembers it like it was yesterday. As a teenager, the Tucson woman ...

Established in 1942 - predominantly recruited from the cream of young and adventurous volunteers who boasted long experience in manual labour and contact sports - on the early morning of D-Day, 6 June ...

Established in 1942 - predominantly recruited from the cream of young and adventurous volunteers who boasted long experience in manual labour and contact sports - on the early morning of D-Day, 6 June ...

Over one million troops crossed The Rhine to overcome the last great natural obstacle to Allied victory in Germany. Thousands ...

My family was aware my father, Lieutenant John Sisson, went ashore on D-Day morning in 1944 with the 22nd Infantry Regiment and earned two Purple Hearts as he fought his way across Europe.

In 2019, he returned to Gold Beach in Arromanches-les-Bains, France, to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day. He was involved in the designing of the Armed Forces Garden in Solihull as somewhere for ...

FILE - Recently released British prisoners of war meet up with a parachute recce party while marching towards Allied lines, in Germany May 4, 1945. German authorities have recently released 8,000 ...

In June 1944, the ship took part in Operation Overlord, to support the Normandy landings and evacuation, known as D-Day. "There's so much history to this ship and it's really cool for us to be ...

The Allies began their march across Europe with the D-Day landings in northern France on June 6, 1944. Two weeks later, the Soviets began their push toward Berlin. As 1944 turned to 1945 ...