Stan Friday, 96, had not been back to Normandy since the war. Before this week, Stan Friday had not been back to Normandy, France, since he and Allied forces stormed its beaches to liberate Europe ...

The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books about World War II. For histories of the war in Europe, Ambrose ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — Friday marks the 81st ...

BEDFORD, Va. – Families of World War II heroes gathered Friday at 9:30 a.m. at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford to honor the courage and service of the brave individuals. They are descendants of ...

Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler's regime. Along the ...

Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...

In the first hours of D-Day in World War II, thousands of U.S. paratroopers were dropped deep behind German lines in Normandy. What was meant to be a precise airborne operation quickly turned into ...