A series of holiday beaches in Devon, in the United Kingdom, were once vital training grounds that contributed to the success ...
June 6, 1944, is a special date in American history. It is synonymous with D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, which took place 80 years ago. History As It Happens takes its annual look back at ...
As we near Veterans Day, ABC 13 learned two surviving D-Day veterans are now living as neighbors together in Central Virginia ...
A week after the D-Day landings on Normandy, in a small French village, disaster struck the Allies. A lone commander of a ...
In his diary, Lam wrote of a narrow brush with death on D-Day aboard HMS Ramillies, as the battleship’s mighty guns were pounding German fortifications with massive 880-kilogram (1,938-pound) shells ...
CARRABELLE — Bob Dunbar studied the photos from 60 years ago. He looked at the old mess kits and dog tags and helmets. He looked at the old footlockers and shovels and uniforms. Almost everything in ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Portsmouth, United Kingdom (KDVR) — They ...
CHARLESTON — Eighty-one years ago this week, the liberation of Paris was being celebrated following the successful Allied invasion of Normandy, France. That victory over Nazi Germany came at a high ...
The Normandy beaches became a battleground in the struggle to free France and Europe at large from the hold of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion, which included land, sea and air forces, was ...
As the 80th anniversary of the invasion unfolded, I received a phone call from my cousin Sam, whom I hadn't heard from in years. He wanted to know if my father had been involved in D-Day. That day, ...
Two Texas heroes were buried more than 80 years after they were killed in action on two of the most consequential dates in ...
The Allied invasion of Normandy is synonymous with heroism, a “great crusade” to end the Nazi tyranny over the peoples of Europe, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower put it in his order on June 6, 1944.