A week after the D-Day landings on Normandy, in a small French village, disaster struck the Allies. A lone commander of a ...

A Whalley-born woman who helped coordinate aircraft during the D-Day landings has been awarded France’s highest honour – just ...

Pfc. Nicholas Hartman, killed on Omaha Beach in 1944, was identified through DNA analysis and honored with a hero's burial at ...

In his diary, Lam wrote of a narrow brush with death on D-Day aboard HMS Ramillies, as the battleship’s mighty guns were ...

Experience D-Day like never before with an unforgettable POV of the landings at D-Day Ohio. From the deck of a Higgins boat to the chaos of the beach, this re-enactment brings the sights and sounds of ...

France awarded its highest honor, the Légion d’honneur, to the Chinese contingent’s last survivor in 2006. Huang Tingxin, ...

Mr Glennie, who turned 100 in August, was awarded the degree by the University of Aberdeen. Mr Glennie hopes future generations will remember the sacrifices which were made in the war. Scott Styles, ...

Nicholas Hartman of Houston died in 1944 Allied invasion, but his remains could not be identified until this year. Advances ...

One of Scotland's last surviving veterans of the D-Day landings has been awarded an honorary degree. Jim Glennie, who turned 100 this year, was just 18 when he took part in the largest military ...

Jim Glennie also became the last living Gordon Highlander veteran of the Second World War to lay a wreath at the University of Aberdeen.

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.