West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for ... liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest city to the landing site not destroyed in the war. It is home to the famous ...

During the Second World War, he was involved in the Marseille landings – an operation in the south of France that acted as a diversion to draw attention away from the Normandy operation.

A tabletop map shows the location of the D-Day landings ... who died in Normandy. Recent visitors appreciated the comprehensive and educational way the museum covers the war.

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 ...

Peeps’ recent series on Victoria Cross recipients has prompted an intriguing query from a reader about a decorated D-Day hero who gave his life in the bitter fighting just a week after the landings.

This map from the Institute for the Study of War from January 27, 2025, shows control of Velyka Novosilka, Donetsk region. This map from the Institute for the Study of War from January 27 ...

The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, says the capture of Velyka Novosilka may prove more political than strategic. “Russia is likely trying to leverage the claimed ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A 13,000-year-old three-dimensional map has been discovered in a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the Paris Basin, potentially the oldest of its kind. This ...

A County Durham town is set to mark the 100th anniversary of its war memorial. The Ferryhill Memorial, unveiled by Brigadier General HC Surtees on January 31, 1925, will be honoured with a service ...

Archaeologists in France have discovered dozens of Roman-era ... which is Gaulish for "Mars the Royal," or the Roman god of war. The inscription names several people — in both Latin and Gaulish ...

The town is small, with a prewar population of only 5,000, but it has served as a key assembly area for offensive and defensive Ukrainian operations in the wider area, says Frontelligence Insight, a ...