Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That ...

I first went to Normandy in 1974. I was a 27-year-old news photographer shooting the French presidential election, and my ...

DALLAS — More than 60 veterans of World War II took off Friday from Dallas to France, where they will take part in ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The group ranges from 96 to 107 ...

BEDFORD, Va. – Families of World War II heroes will gather Friday at 9:30 a.m. at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford to ...

ON OMAHA BEACH, France — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day, as Tuesday’s ceremonies got underway in honor of those who ...

A week after the D-Day landings on Normandy, in a small French village, disaster struck the Allies. A lone commander of a ...

WASHINGTON — Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a day treating wounded troops under heavy ...

More U.S. servicemembers died during World War II than the number of veterans of that war are still alive today. Of the 16 million servicemembers from 1941 to 1945, the U.S. Department of Veterans ...

A 90-year-old World War II veteran is topping the U.K. singles chart with a veterans tribute song. Jim Radford was just 15 years old during when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy.