World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, have returned with the same message they fought for then: Freedom is worth defending.

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

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 ...

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

The D-Day generation is smaller in number than ever but back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 ...

- This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, participating in the first wave of ...

The role played by Coast Guard personnel who crewed the Higgins boats was critical to the success of the D-Day landings in ...

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

After last week’s column on Cpl. Richard Garland Ayers—who perished on the shores of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944—I received ...

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

The young soldiers were part of the first wave of Allied forces landing on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion in June ...

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