In the first hours of D-Day in World War II, thousands of U.S. paratroopers were dropped deep behind German lines in Normandy ...

A local World War II veteran in Vineland, New Jersey, celebrated his 103rd birthday at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. "Last time I checked, I was 29," Timothy Kiniry said. Kiniry celebrated ...

The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books about World War II. For histories of the war in Europe, Ambrose ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS — Friday marks the 81st ...

Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler's regime. Along the ...

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 – ...

Just two weeks after American forces landed at Normandy on D-Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting helplessly, Tueller ...

Cavallini was a Marine and served as an infantry platoon commander during the Battle of Iwo Jima, where he was injured and ...