The American Airpower Museum (AAM) in Farmingdale, New York, continues its popular “C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience” with four 2025 dates to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of ...
The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already begun hours earlier.
Editor's Note: This editorial, slightly revised, is published annually as a tribute to D-Day. When the United States put its young men ashore on D-Day 81 years ago tomorrow, they were not alone.
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...
Since it first opened in 2000 as The National D-Day Museum, the heart of The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has long been its 8,000-square-foot D-Day exhibit. Over 25 years, tens of millions of ...
World War II veteran Wilbur "Jack" Myers, a 101-year-old who fought in the U.S. Army's 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, hands a souvenir postcard of himself to Ryan, a young French boy, on Monday, June ...
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 ...