Operation Bagration officially concluded on August 28th, 1944, having inflicted over $1.2$ million casualties on both sides ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach under heavy fire on D-Day will receive an award for self-sacrifice and public service from the ...

Some World War II veterans have landed in France to mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day on Friday. A group of about two dozen veterans who served in Europe and the Pacific traveled back to the once ...

Colleville-sur-Mer, France — 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 ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A Woonsocket native who was wounded driving a boat full of soldiers onto Omaha Beach under heavy fire on D-Day will receive an award for self-sacrifice and public service on Saturday ...

BEDFORD, VA – 81 years after D-Day, the veterans are fewer, but the purpose remains. “Fewer and fewer of these heroic men are here to receive our thanks and to tell their story of a day that changed ...

HOUSTON — Law enforcement officials escorted the remains of a fallen World War II Army medic to their final resting place on Monday. Nicholas Hartman was 20 when he died on D-Day during World War II.

Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. I am the keeper of a love story that began before I was born and now spans 81 years, ...

Crucial weather forecasts helped allied forces invade on D-Day. Storm forecasts changed history. Today's forecasts still benefit from the science developed during WW2. On June 6, 1944, the Allied ...