When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just ...

Normandy was the site of intense fighting. The Allies had made progress in France despite suffering major losses on several beaches, and the scattering of paratroopers across the French countryside.

Gray said he encountered German troops every day from D-Day to Victory in Europe (V.E.) Day in early May 1945. He also fought ...

My wife, Lori, and I had the opportunity to visit the American Cemetery on Omaha Beach in France on the 81st anniversary of D-Day. The site is immaculately maintained. Over ...

The 81st anniversary of the famous U.S.-led D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, was recently commemorated ... against Germans threatening American forces who came ashore at Utah beach, one of the main ...

Carrying full equipment, American assault troops move onto a beachhead code-named Omaha Beach, on the northern coast of France on June 6, 1944, during the Allied invasion of the Normandy coast.

Harold Terens, a 101-year-old U.S. veteran who last year married his 96-year-old sweetheart near the D-Day beaches, was back in Normandy ... The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France ...

Chaminade High School students visited France and prayed at the graveside of an alum who died after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Courtesy Chaminade High School “We never even thought that one ...

Who were the Bedford Boys? Of the tens of thousands of troops that stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, 44 were soldiers, sailors and airmen from Bedford, Virginia, in the US.

The allied invasion of Normandy was the largest in history. More than 156,000 men landed on D-Day - of which 83,000 were from Britain and the Commonwealth.

As we mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day, here is a look at what happened on the beaches of Normandy, the men who fought knowing they might not survive to see victory and the way it affected the ...

More than 80 years ago, on June 6, 1944, Allied troops launched a bold assault on the beaches of Normandy, France, marking a decisive turning point in World War II.