On Aug. 27, he was one of 27 servicemen called to the White House to receive the Medal of Honor from President Truman. Still being a Mexican citizen, he was subsequently summoned to Mexico City to ...

Many of the best France tours focus on one region or topic so you can truly see the various cultures and lifestyles of the different parts of the country.

A dream of 89-year-old Jim Shaw of Lanesville was to visit the D-Day beaches of Normandy, France. When Shaw was in the Army, he was a driver for a post commander. Robert Schickel of Lanesville, a good ...

A dream of 89-year-old Jim Shaw of Lanesville was to visit the D-Day beaches of Normandy, France. When Shaw was in the Army, he was a driver for a post commander. Robert Schickel of Lanesville, a good ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — There was a group of American tourists - many of them veterans of units like the 82nd Airborne Division - who had arranged to lay a wreath at the magnificent D-Day ...

I’ve covered many anniversaries of D-Day, and they never lose their power to move. We were at the 81st anniversary at the stunning American cemetery in Normandy near Omaha Beach on Friday. American ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — 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 centenarians, ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...

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 ...

Eighty years after D-Day, BYU geologists uncover lingering WWII shrapnel on Normandy beaches to study how history still shapes the coastline today. BYU geology professor Sam Hudson and a team of ...