Mer, where thousands of troops came ashore on D-Day on June 6, 1944. A local police spokesperson said ‘the driver hit ...

Crozet World War II veteran Robert Campbell celebrated his 100th birthday January 29. Born in 1925 in Augusta County, he grew up on a farm until drafted into the army in 1942. He was part of the ...

Day, the world has had a chance to honor the Allied troops who invaded Normandy in 1944 in the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history. It ...

The structures resemble the metal “X-like” anti-tank obstacles that were positioned along the Normandy beaches by Germans ...

A total of 197 students in grades 4 – 12 from 21 schools presented 154 projects to history and social science experts on Jan. 24 at LSU Shreveport. Among the topics studied by individuals and groups ...

Although you might know GM better for its line of trucks, it has a long history of providing the U.S. with essential military ...

Mary Kearney was a leader of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, a unit depicted in the Tyler Perry movie “The Six Triple Eight” released on Netflix.

This article is accompanied by photos that show human bodies — lives lost in a German concentration camp that operated during ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

The 9th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army activated for service prior to U.S. entry in World War II in August of 1940 at ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II. World War II was America’s ...