ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHAM) – On Veterans Day, the men and women who have fought for the country are honored, including a 103-year ...

It involved the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of troops on five separate beaches in Normandy. More than a year in the planning, D-Day was originally set to start on 5 June, judged to ...

French officials have ‘relaunched’ a bid to have the D-Day landing beaches protected by UNESCO World Heritage listing.

NORMANDY — As a student of military history, especially World War II, I had longed to perhaps someday visit Normandy, the ...

Leonard T. Schroeder Jr. holds a unique place in history as the first Allied soldier to set foot on Normandy during D-Day.

San Jose held its 105th Veterans Day Parade on Monday, despite a downpour. Riding in a red Mercedes was 100-year-old former ...

LONDON, UK — D-Day veteran George Chandler, who sought to counter sometimes glamorous depictions of the landings by recalling ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an ... Situated about 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest ...

On the run-in to Juno Beach they were fired on by German ... Sheppard in June this year attending a memorial service at the Normandy D-Day Landings Memorial at Rettendon, Essex His unit was ...