Answering through his executive assistant, Eisenhower replied that "any amphibious operation has a 'departed date'; therefore, the shortened term 'D-Day' is used." But retired Army Lt. Col.

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

Our friend Henry Langrehr may be gone, but the memory of what he did for our great nation will never fade away.

NORMANDY, France - A 98-year-old WWII vet from Pasco County, who joined the Army after watching footage of D-Day in a movie theater is among veterans from the Bay Area attending D-Day anniversary ...

JUPITER — U.S. Army veteran Chung Wong of Jupiter today will parachute out of a plane near the beaches of Normandy to mimic the intrepid journey that paratroopers took 80 years ago on D-Day.

Henry Langrehr, 100, a Clinton native who as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into France on D-Day, died ...

In 1945, an attempt was made to identify the unknown remains, but the effort was unsuccessful, the DPAA said. Analysts with ...

On the day he would graduate from Clinton High School, Henry Langrehr was preparing to jump to the beaches of Normandy.

Movies: Dunkirk, Bombers and the Bombed, Evacuees, Secret Army, D-Day It was the greatest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare and the risks were immense. The consequences of failure were ...

was hand-picked by General Dwight Eisenhower to command the 1st U.S. Army during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. Under Bradley's direction, American forces liberated Paris, turned back an ...