Some of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day invasion made a pilgrimage to the Normandy beaches in northern ... helped bring about the end of World War II. American veterans began gathering ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach ... who visit Normandy are partial to this cemetery and memorial in particular.

A D-Day veteran who led a campaign for a memorial near the Normandy beach where he landed in World War Two has died at the age of 97. George Batts, who lived in Barming, near Maidstone ...

Growing up, Samantha Baskind’s father would sometimes mention his “Uncle Nate,” who stormed the beaches of Normandy ... Jewish American war hero,” often just around Memorial Day, Baskind ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day ... place June 6 on Omaha Beach. According to statistics from the National World War II Museum and the U.S ...

And in the eight decades since the end of the Second World War we have spoken ... The British Normandy Memorial now stands on a hillside above "Gold Beach" which our architect Liam O’Connor ...

chairman of Trustees at the Normandy Memorial Trust, and senior French guests. The event also included coverage of the Royal British Legion's service of remembrance at the Bayeux Commonwealth War ...

After the war, the U.S. Army awarded Shay ... in a park overlooking Omaha Beach, the people of Normandy dedicated the Charles Shay Memorial. The first French monument to honor American Indian ...