Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...
CHICAGO -- Vietnam veteran Jerome Weatherspoon has a special hobby. Weatherspoon, a 67-year-old retiree, reconstructed the battle scene of the Invasion of Normandy, complete with replica war planes ...
That the leave was asked and granted showed that the Allied had succeeded in misleading the Germans about the date of ...
D-Day veterans discuss the challenges they faced at the invasion of Normandy. NORMANDY, France, June 5, 2009 — -- You can learn the most interesting things riding on a train. The train I'd chosen ...
RICHMOND, Texas -- It's not often you get to meet someone who is 100 years old. Lucian Baskin has lived for a century. He has lived through 18 presidents, the civil rights movement, and the dawn of ...
There are not many living veterans that were part of the D-Day invasion in Normandy in 1944 but, at 102 years old, Ed ...
Chaminade High School students prayed for hours at the gravesite of a long-forgotten alum who heroically died after the D-Day invasion of Normandy during a recent trip to France. Officials at the Long ...
Eighty one years after the invasion of Normandy, a local vocal ensemble from Wake County, called VocaVarina, will travel to France and participate in a patriotic concert to remember those who fought ...