81 years after D-Day, a fallen Houston soldier is laid to rest

Pfc. Nicholas Hartman, killed on Omaha Beach in 1944, was identified through DNA analysis and honored with a hero's burial at ...
KLTV

East Texas Now: Longview High School choir students visit D-Day’s Omaha beach

NORMANDY, France (KLTV) - On day four of their trip abroad, the Longview High School Choir visited Omaha Beach, one of five sites in Normandy involved in the initial D-Day invasion. Omaha Beach was ...
Observer-Reporter

New Eagle veteran recalls D-Day at Omaha Beach

Tom Sollosi Jr. has told the story many times, and even though it’s been 80 years since D-Day, the World War II veteran from New Eagle recalls the Normandy invasion with vivid detail. “My memory is ...
American Rifleman

D-Day At 80: The Re-Discovered Small Arms

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Personnel from an ordnance ...
Public Opinion

D-Day at Omaha Beach taught Carl Felton, now 98, that life and democracy are fragile

Hundreds of people young and old cheer and cry before Carl Felton when he is in France. He is not a world-famous celebrity, but a World War II veteran. Eighty years ago on June 6, 1944, he survived ...
The Sentinel

Omaha Beach survivor featured at Veterans’ Café event Monday

Omaha Beach invasion survivor Henry Ferri will share his story Monday of the D-Day invasion at a Veterans' Cafe event at Hoffman Funeral Home and Crematory in Carlisle. Veterans of all military ...

WWII veteran Melvin Hurwitz, a fixture at jewelry shop, dies at 100

A locally well-known World War II veteran who received worldwide attention when he embraced President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine at a D-Day anniversary celebration last year died Sunday at the age ...