The son of Tapit finished fourth in the 2013 Kentucky Derby and joined the retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky. last year ...

Shay, who grew up on Indian Island, near Old Town, was an Army medic during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. He ...

Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France ...

The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...

Now 101, Shay is one of a dwindling number of living D-Day vets. Over the years, he has been a fixture at annual remembrance ceremonies commemorating the June 6, 1944, Allied assault on the beaches of ...

PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha ...

On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France became the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. The success of the operation, called Operation Overlord and most ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

June 6, 1944, is a day forever etched in history — the beginning of the end of World War II. It was when about 160,000 Allied troops, the largest seaborne invasion ever, stormed the beaches of ...