Editor's Note: This editorial, slightly revised, is published annually as a tribute to D-Day. When the United States put its young men ashore on D-Day 81 years ago tomorrow, they were not alone.
D-Day veteran Jake Larson, a 102-year-old who is also a star on TikTok, with 1.2 million followers, greets schoolchildren during a visit Monday, June 2, 2025 in Colleville-sur-Mer, to the Normandy ...
Every day, vehicles and commuters roll aboard the Cape Henlopen between New London, CT, and Orient Point on Long Island — often unaware they’re traveling on a piece of World War II history. The Cross ...
OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...
According to 2024 US Department of Veterans Affairs statistics, less than half of a percent of the 16.4 million Americans who served in World War II are still living. As direct connections to the war ...
Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...
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World War II D-Day drop that nearly failed
In the first hours of D-Day in World War II, thousands of U.S. paratroopers were dropped deep behind German lines in Normandy ...
World War II veteran Wilbur "Jack" Myers, a 101-year-old who fought in the U.S. Army's 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, hands a souvenir postcard of himself to Ryan, a young French boy, on Monday, June ...
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