George Mullins, a World War II veteran and local celebrity, celebrated his 100th birthday today. Mullins, who served as a ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather ... Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of Nazi Germany.

"We'll start the war from right here!" Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the ...

So how would they keep the invasion force supplied once it had landed? One answer was to land supplies and personnel directly onto the Normandy beaches but unpredictable weather might make that ...

Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day.

Some 4,000 Allied troops were killed in the invasion. Goss knows he was one of the lucky ones to make it back home. He traveled to Normandy with his daughter and nephew. Separately, many other ...

He breaks down the iconic movie opening of the landing on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day. He discusses the realism of the weapons and strategies ...

An engineering feat, the harbors were used to unload troops, vehicles and supplies during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. While not much is left of the floating harbors, you can ...

Henry Langrehr, 100, a Clinton native who as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division parachuted into France on D-Day, died ...