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.

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 ...

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.

An engineering feat, the harbors were used to unload troops, vehicles and supplies during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June ... its creation and the D-Day landings. Recent visitors praised ...

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 53-year-old Iraq War veteran from Kansas passed away suddenly on an Air France flight traveling from ... collapse mid-flight led to an emergency landing in New York, highlighting the ...

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 ...

Officials have ordered certain areas of Monterey County to evacuate after a fire broke out at a power plant The Castroville Rec Center is being used as a temporary evacuation point MOSS LANDING ...

The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on Sudan's army chief days after blacklisting his main rival, as outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced regret at his failure to end the ...

France plans to hold a conference on Syria in Paris on February 13, the French presidency said in a statement on Thursday. Following a call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Macron's ...