At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...
West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...
World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Local World War II veteran Richard Schermerhorn, who landed on a Normandy beach during the D-Day invasion in 1944, has died at the age of 102.
There are no showtimes for this date. June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through ...
All along the Normandy coastline — where then-young soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on June 6 ...
In 1997, Woodson was on the shortlist for the Medal of Honor when the first Black World War II soldiers were honored ... to protect troops along the beaches of Normandy from German fighter planes ...
Battalion Sgt. Major James Mardin, a World War II veteran, walked into the Maine Military Museum to a cake for his 103rd ...