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ESTELL MANOR — Dozens of veterans and their families joined local officials Friday at the Richard E. Squires Veterans Cemetery for Atlantic County’s 40th annual ceremony honoring those who ...
Neil Smoak has spent his life studying his family, including three Smoak men from Colleton County who died June 9, 1944, during the Normandy invasion.
A ceremony on June 7 will honor nine U.S. soldiers from Pennsylvania's 28th Division killed during the fight for Gathemo, ...
The 81st D-Day commemoration drew large crowds to honor the 75,000 US troops who fought at Normandy, while centenarian ...
Day. The invasion of Normandy began on that day in 1944, launching the largest seaborne invasion in history as Allied forces stormed Western Europe. When it was over, thousands of troops had perished ...
Don Whitehead's emotional war reporting from Normandy. "Beachhead Don," written by a former University of Tennessee professor, captures his heroism and sacrifice.
Eighty-one years after Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, the heroics and sacrifices of those soldiers are remembered and honored. The D-Day invasion, the largest seaborne invasion ...
D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France used the largest-ever armada of troops and vehicles to breach Hitler’s defenses in ...
The American heroes who stormed onto Normandy Beach 81 years ago to free Europe from Nazi tyranny are almost all gone now.
Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops ...