SOUTHWICK, England (Reuters) - Seventy-five years ago, at Southwick House on Britain's southern coast, Allied commanders stood in front of a floor-to-ceiling wall map, planning the largest seaborne ...

Data: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Map: Axios Visuals As the nation remembers D-Day on Friday's 81st anniversary, a dwindling number of World War II veterans remain with us. About 300 WWII ...

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 ...

AIKEN — Veterans of history's greatest amphibious invasion are few and far between, but Aiken County still includes several people with vivid childhood or teen memories of June 6, 1944. D-Day had ...

Medals didn’t matter on D-Day to soldiers like John Carpenter Raaen, Jr. “Never occurred to me,” said Raaen, now 103, a Winter Park resident and the only surviving Army Ranger who stormed Omaha Beach ...