LONDON (AP) — The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229 foot)-long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in Britain next year for the first time in 900 years. It ...

Operation PLUTO, which stands for Pipe Lines Under The Ocean, was a daring and top-secret British engineering plan designed as a collaboration between the British Armed forces, oil companies, and ...

Roger Muirhead, who has died a few days short of his 104th birthday, was awarded campaign medals for his Army service in North Africa, Italy, Normandy and Burma. Roger Hedderwick Muirhead was born in ...

The precious medieval work is to be displayed in London next year - but the French art world is strongly opposed.

WIESBADEN, Germany — Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set the standard for coalition warfare. The lessons ...

D-Day veterans discuss the challenges they faced at the invasion of Normandy. NORMANDY, France, June 5, 2009 — -- You can learn the most interesting things riding on a train. The train I'd chosen ...

CHICAGO -- Vietnam veteran Jerome Weatherspoon has a special hobby. Weatherspoon, a 67-year-old retiree, reconstructed the battle scene of the Invasion of Normandy, complete with replica war planes ...

CHARLESTON — One of the last times Pfc. Hubert Smoak wrote home to the family farm in Colleton County, he said he was prepared to fight. Just as importantly, the 28-year-old Army soldier told his ...

SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France -- Seventy-five years ago, American paratrooper John Steele dangled from a clock tower in Sainte-Mere-Eglise after his parachute got caught during the D-Day invasion, and ...

Eighty one years after the invasion of Normandy, a local vocal ensemble from Wake County, called VocaVarina, will travel to France and participate in a patriotic concert to remember those who fought ...

As real weapons are repositioned amid the shifting demands of the war, decoys can be moved into place, drawing further fire and wasting enemy resources.