Maj. Gen. John C. Raaen Jr., the last surviving U.S. Army Ranger who took part in the initial assault on Omaha Beach on D-Day ...

Tributes have been pouring in for Yorkshire Second World War veteran Fred Adamson, who has died aged 105, and whose proudest possession was the two cigarette cases which once saved his life in battle.

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 ...

The oldest member of Honor Flight 52 was Charlie Garner Sr. The 102-year-old is a World War II veteran from Syracuse, Indiana ...

The USS LST-325, a World War II landing ship, tank (LST) turned floating museum, will be docked at the port of Alton from ...

An offbeat but compelling traveling exhibit is taking up much of the front lobby exhibit space at the World War II American Experience museum in Gettysburg.

War hero Ronald Butcher, 98, has passed away months after opening up to The Mirror to urge the world to 'learn from the past' ...

Parts of an Empire Russians of the former Soviet imperial power, in the period 1945-90, with their formal annexations [e.g.

On June 6, 1944, as Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy under withering fire, the 2nd Ranger Battalion faced one of D-Day’s most perilous missions: scaling the sheer 100-foot cliffs of ...