Carentan was a crucial objective in June 1944, connecting the U.S. landing beaches of Utah and Omaha and shaping the success of the Normandy campaign. Fought over by the 101st Airborne Division ...

Day, was a father of five girls and had 16 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.

Last Updated on September 11, 2025 by Matt Staff On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as ...

LST-325 will play a special part in Muscatine’s ‘United We Remember’ event at 5 p.m. Thursday evening along the riverfront.

Normandy’s landing beaches are main attractions for tourists visiting that historic area of France. But cemeteries where ...

More folks should visit Normandy, particularly the D-Day beaches, where thousands sacrificed their lives for freedom. Those ...

14:24, Sun, Sep 7, 2025 Updated: 14:30, Sun, Sep 7, 2025 Little Alfred Mawson walks with giants after completing the world’s largest one-day commemorative march. The six-year-old promised to spend his ...

The picture is typically shared with captions saying that the men were buried in makeshift graves on Omaha Beach before proper cemeteries were built, and that nurse Clara Thompson wrote down the names ...

Paris was liberated from German forces on August 25, 1944, during World War II. The victory came after weeks of fighting across France, as Allied forces advanced following the D-Day landings in ...