Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior lieutenant ... He was in charge of a landing craft that “the Allies used ...

Leonard Charles Groeger was among three from Northampton County who died on Omaha Beach fighting for the 1st Infantry ...

Now age is accomplishing what the Germans could not, claiming the lives of the warriors who survived World War II. Just 1.2 million ... nearly a year after the D-Day landing, but for many ...

Anyone who kept a diary risked being be jailed. But now, at the age of 99½, ex-Royal Marine Tom Hill has finally decided to reveal his secret ...

Congress has approved the use of Emancipation Hall for the June 26 awarding of a congressional gold medal approved in 2022 ...

When American military planners began searching for islands they could use to attack Japan from, they identified the Marianas ...

Day. Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, to fight Nazi Germany in World War II. Facts The largest amphibious (land and water) invasion in history. The code name for the invasion ...

Learn all about Operation Fortitude, the plan to deceive and divide the Nazis during the build-up to D-Day, when National WWII Museum volunteer ... the site of the D-Day landing, and after the ...

Shuttered military museum plans to move collection to NC after not finding another home. It hopes to leave legacy of Citadel ...

In this image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, wreckage is seen in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington ...

Michael Soares and his daughter Abbie, 17, of Bloomington have been studying D-Day casualty Private Cecil Toler of Charleston for a research project in which they will present their findings in June ...