World War II veteran Irv Locker, one of the last surviving soldiers of the D-Day invasion, marked his 101st birthday this ...
While the world watched Normandy, the Soviet Union launched Operation Bagration in the East, a far larger and more devastating assault on June 23, 1944, that became the true breaking point of Nazi ...
The modern-day Monuments Men will be based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The U.S. Army Reserve and the Smithsonian are partnering to establish a modern-day "Monuments Men" program, reviving a ...
Medals didn’t matter on D-Day to soldiers like John Carpenter Raaen, Jr. “Never occurred to me,” said Raaen, now 103, a Winter Park resident and the only surviving Army Ranger who stormed Omaha Beach ...
HOUSTON — Law enforcement officials escorted the remains of a fallen World War II Army medic to their final resting place on Monday. Nicholas Hartman was 20 when he died on D-Day during World War II.