West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Battalion Sgt. Major James Mardin, a World War II veteran, walked into the Maine Military Museum to a cake for his 103rd ...

Some of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day invasion made a pilgrimage to the Normandy beaches in northern France ... end of World War II. American veterans began gathering at Omaha and ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D ... take place June 6 on Omaha Beach. According to statistics from the National World War II Museum and the U.S ...

World War II Memories: From Omaha Beach to Vienna tells the compelling story of Joseph Gorra, who gives a first-hand account of what it was like to be part of the first wave of soldiers to land on ...

• An Arizona native who now lives in Tempe, Gomez served under Gen. George Patton during World War II and fought on both ...

Their responsibilities include offering ceremonies at American cemeteries and memorials in Normandy to honor the men and women who served during World War II—part a growing movement to ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these ... Companies like Normandy Sightseeing Tours, Bayeux Shuttle and ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were ... which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively known as the ...