APPLETON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Wis. (WFRV) – Three of Northeast Wisconsin’s World War II heroes have returned from their once-in-a-lifetime visit to Normandy, France. American Airlines flew around 70 ...
PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha ...
UTAH BEACH, France (AP) — As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it rose again over Normandy beaches where soldiers fought and died exactly 80 years ago Thursday, kicking off intense anniversary ...
The first time Harold Terens traveled to Normandy, he was 20 years old, a U.S. Army Air Forces corporal, and tasked with bringing freed American prisoners of war to England days after D-Day in 1944 — ...
"Don't forget what we did for freedom," one veteran said. A World War II veteran who stormed the French beaches of Normandy on D-Day 76 years ago recently accomplished his latest mission: to find the ...
Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France ...
OMAHA BEACH, France — As young soldiers, they waded ashore in Normandy through gunfire to battle the Nazis. On Thursday, a dwindling number of World War II veterans were joined by a new generation of ...
The two tied the knot Saturday near the place he and nearly 160,000 others landed on June 6, 1944, in the fight against the Nazis. “I just love this place. It has horrific memories for me,” Terens ...
A 90-year-old World War II veteran is topping the U.K. singles chart with a veterans tribute song. Jim Radford was just 15 years old during when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy.
World War II veterans joined heads of state and others Thursday for poignant ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Allied invasion, which began on ...