At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

World War II veteran Martin Copenhafer, who survived D-Day in 1944, is starting over at age 104 after his Malibu home was ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France ... nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - June 6 is the anniversary of D-Day, and one Box Elder Army veteran, Paul Priest, flew to Normandy ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Local World War II veteran Richard Schermerhorn, who landed on a Normandy beach during the D-Day invasion in 1944, has died at the age of 102.

The Normandy invasion was a harrowing task of ... His landing craft were used in every major amphibious assault of World War II, from the shores of Europe to the Pacific islands.

DOYLESTOWN — Lauren Miller never met the man buried in Plot I, Row 19, Grave 12, of the American military cemetery in Normandy. She knows he left Elizabethtown College after a single semester ...

A Fort Carson soldier had no idea his special assignment to participate in D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations in Normandy, France, meant he'd actually get to meet a 104-year-old D-Day hero.