SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — D-Day memorializes the sacrifices of 9,000 Allied soldiers during the storming of the beaches of Normandy and the beginning of the retaking of France in World War II. On June ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — World War II aircraft that moved troops and cargo across the North Atlantic to Europe are being retooled, fueled and readied to make the same journey the aircraft did 80 years ago for a ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — As young soldiers, they waded ashore in Normandy through gunfire to battle the Nazis. On Thursday, a dwindling number of World War II veterans were joined by a new generation of ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — Sid Edson was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his role aboard a B-24 bomber on D-Day. He emphatically refuses to be labeled a hero. “I just did what I was told to do,” ...

World War II veterans joined heads of state and others Thursday for poignant ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Allied invasion, which began on ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...

ON OMAHA BEACH, France — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day, as Tuesday’s ceremonies got underway in honor of those who ...

WASHINGTON — Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II, spent more than a day treating wounded troops under heavy ...

Harold Terens, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, and his fiancée Jeanne Swerlin, are preparing to marry in France. Despite being widowed, both Terens and Swerlin fell in love after being introduced ...