Nicholas Hartman was 20 when he died on D-Day during WWII. This summer, nearly 80 years after his death, he was finally ...

Two Texas heroes were buried more than 80 years after they were killed in action on two of the most consequential dates in ...

As D-day got underway on Omaha Beach, the situation was looking grim for the Allies. Barely had the first wave of soldiers ...

Experience a gripping, first-person look at the chaos and courage of D-Day as reenactors bring the 1st Infantry Division’s assault to life at D-Day Ohio. Through intense POV footage, we follow the ...

One of the great U.S. building jobs in World War II was the high-speed construction of the swarming fleets of landing craft for the Allied amphibious attacks on Sicily, Italy, Attu, Kiska and Rendova.

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — Most people in Elizabethton know Bill Armstrong, Jr. as the principal of Harold McCormick Elementary School, but he’s also the last known World War II sailor from his ...

The remains of Pvt. James Lee Harrington, killed in action on D-Day, have been identified and will be buried in Iowa. Harrington, 21, died aboard a landing craft that was hit by enemy fire and a mine.

As part of World War II’s strategy to liberate Italy from the Nazis, the Allies sent an invasion force of 36,000 troops with naval and air support to land behind German lines at Anzio and to cut off ...

Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, about 822 planes, carrying 13,000 paratroopers, crossed the English Channel heading for drop zones in Normandy, France. Corporal Victor Nelson of Midland, ...

The PT had an ugly duckling painted on the bow. The duckling pointed to itself with one wing and above was the legend, “Who, Me?” The skipper was Theodore Berlin, a slender, dark Reservist of 22 who ...

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. Its success heralded the beginning of the ...