Here on a bluff high over the English Channel are some 9,000 white crosses and Stars of David at the American Cemetery.
There was a group of American tourists — many of them veterans of units like the 82nd Airborne Division — who had arranged to ...
June 1944 - amid the flooded fields of Normandy, the 101st Airborne Division fought a desperate battle to capture the town of Carentan, the key to linking Utah and Omaha Beach. This film recounts the ...
Surprisingly, Steven Spielberg 's Saving Private Ryan now ranks only sixth among the highest-grossing war films, although ...
The clinic will honor Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell, the late Army Ranger who fought in World War II from the Normandy invasion through the Battle of Bulge.
War films and series attempt the impossible challenge that has confronted filmmakers since cinema's earliest days: ...
There was a group of American tourists — many of them veterans of units like the 82nd Airborne Division — who had arranged to ...
WINTER PARK, Fla. – Maj. Gen. John C. Raaen Jr., the last surviving U.S. Army Ranger who took part in the initial assault on Omaha Beach on D-Day, received the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal during a ...
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Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the bloodiest and most fiercely contested landings of the Normandy invasion. U.S. forces faced heavily fortified German defenses, rough seas, and deadly crossfire as they ...
The natural reaction to any sort of ranking is to look at the top to check out who is leading and look at the bottom to see who might be new. Take the latest Associated Press Top 25 college football ...
A lawsuit to ban beach driving at historic American Beach in Nassau County has ended in a settlement. The settlement allows driving to continue but adds new protections for sea turtles, like a ...