Normandy veteran George Batts started campaigning for the memorial in 2012. He watched the ceremony from the National Memorial Arboretum due to coronavirus restrictions limiting the number of ...

Queen Camilla and First Lady of France Brigitte Macron made a united front alongside their spouses during the commemorative event at the British Normandy Memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day ...

Franklin & Marshall College President Daniel R. Porterfield told a crowd of approximately 1,000 in Normandy, France, that the late Maj. Richard Winters had graduated from the college "prepared to lead ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) - When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by ...

NORMANDY, France -- On May 26 and 27, 2024, Soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment participated in Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremonies at the Normandy and Brittany American Cemeteries in France. These ...

D-Day veterans have been left in tears as the memories of decades past came flooding back while they were honoured for their service by world leaders and royals. Soldiers who took part in the Normandy ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Joy and sadness in acute doses poured out Monday on the beaches of Normandy. As several dozen D-Day veterans — now all in their 90s — set foot on the sands that claimed so ...

A 90-year-old D-Day veteran whose song about the World War II invasion is outselling tunes by artists like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran on Amazon’s singles chart said he is “overwhelmed” by the ...

The allied landings on the beaches of Normandy, France, marked a turning point in World War II. It would lead to the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control. That initial assault, on June 6th, ...

SAINTE-MÈRE-ÉGLISE, France (Army News Service, June 11, 2014) -- Barely past midnight, in the first moments of June 6, 1944, hundreds of aircraft carrying some 24,000 British and American paratroopers ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by ...