With fewer than 67,000 World War II veterans still alive in 2024, the Best Defense Foundation brought 23 former servicemen to ...

The story began in France, just after the D-Day invasion, in June 1944. My father, Lt. Donald Johnson, was a Seabee, a civil ...

The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...

A small town in Normandy, France, is honoring the sacrifice of the 28th Division this weekend. Nine soldiers were killed in ...

Just a few weeks ago, standing on a bluff overlooking Omaha, the wide beach, just as Dad had described, lay below.

France is a country where history still feels alive, with centuries of culture, power, war, and art leaving their mark across ...

There, every person has a story, a collective thread, which ties them to not only D-Day but the days that followed. St. Lô, known for a long time as the “Capital of Ruins,” was liberated a ...

Normandy is a region in France that truly has it all – dramatic coastlines, charming villages, fascinating cities, and a ...

“Now an emerging food and wine destination within California’s Central Coast, Los Olivos is both alluring and inviting ... the unparalleled vistas at every turn and the prominent Roman ruins that ...

THE wind swirls sand around my boots and gulls bounce overhead as I read the 47 Royal Marine Commando Memorial at the viewpoint in Port-en-Bessin, the site of a daring raid following D-Day.

Returning home on Leave, Lewis got a telegram recalling him to HMS Dacres, one of three headquarters ships used during the D-Day landings ... it was sunk just off the French coast. Swimming to safety ...