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The story of D-Day and the Shermans trying to swim to the shore of Omaha Beach is legendary. The 741st Tank Battalion would ...
Another Virginia hero is coming home. He has rested for decades in an overseas cemetery beneath a cross reading, simply and ...
The 172.5 acre cemetery near Omaha Beach is one of the most-visited D-Day-related sites in Normandy, with more than one ...
In 1945, an attempt was made to identify the unknown remains, but the effort was unsuccessful, the DPAA said. Analysts with ...
For generations, Army Pvt. David Moser's grave was marked by an erroneous headstone with a Latin cross, not a Star of David.
Opinion: When the “shot heard ‘round the world” rang out, it launched a legacy carried on in today’s National Guard, Gen.
U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...
World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler's defeat.
Plan Ahead: Since some of Normandy's D-Day beaches sit roughly 200 miles northwest of Paris, you're in for a full day, but ...
Eisenhower National Historic Site in Pennsylvania will offer special ranger-guided tours of World War II burial sites in Gettysburg National Cemetery to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day and ...
Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah beaches, is collectively ... The American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer and the Pointe-du-Hoc bomb craters are ...