Eighty-one years after William Owens helped stop Nazi forces in Normandy, the Army posthumously awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross in recognition of his bravery.

Army Staff Sgt. William Owens was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for defending la fiere bridge during ...

CARENTAN, France — In an open 1940s military vehicle rumbling through the Normandy countryside, Staff Sgt. Nathan Selby and ...

A local Northville student is presenting an in-depth D-Day presentation chronicling the history of the 101st Airborne ...

Decades after Staff Sgt. William Owens' heroic actions at La Fiere Bridge, his Bronze Star was posthumously upgraded thanks ...

More than 80 years ago, on June 6, 1944, Allied troops launched a bold assault on the beaches of Normandy, France, marking a ...

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

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

U.S. Army Lt ... with planning an invasion he still took time for Soldiers. “Shortly after General Eisenhower made the difficult decision to launch the invasion of Normandy, he drafted a ...

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy ... US Army lost the most men in the amphibious landings. Some 2,500 American troops died in the beach assault and ...