FORT MOORE — As a boy, Jack Gibson hung by his grandfather’s side and affectionately called him “Papa.” Whenever his grandfather spoke, Gibson noticed people around him stopped what they were doing to ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set the standard for coalition warfare. The lessons ...

JUPITER — U.S. Army veteran Chung Wong of Jupiter parachuted out of a plane near the beaches of Normandy on Wednesday to mimic the intrepid journey that paratroopers took 80 years ago on D-Day. The ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of ...

Bolland, then a captain, smiles for the camera before making his first jump on May 30, 1942. (Matthew T. Bolland Collection via Casemate Publishers) Lt. Col. Gerhard L. Bolland was a proud Norwegian ...

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers. If you ...

Eighty years ago, on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day during World War II, a 4-page special edition of The Real McCoy newspaper was passed around then Camp McCoy highlighting the start of the ...

Waverly Woodson was a 21-year-old Army corporal on June 6, 1944, when he landed on Omaha Beach as a combat medic with the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion — an often-overlooked unit that was the only ...

Eighty years after the D-Day invasions, many soldiers have still not been identified. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has accounted for at least seven soldiers through DNA matching. Three of ...

On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment ...