Normandy veteran George Batts started campaigning for the memorial in 2012. He watched the ceremony from the National Memorial Arboretum due to coronavirus restrictions limiting the number of ...

Queen Camilla and First Lady of France Brigitte Macron made a united front alongside their spouses during the commemorative event at the British Normandy Memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day ...

Mervyn Kersh, 101, from Cockfosters, north London, is being honoured for his school talks on Holocaust remembrance and his ...

Franklin & Marshall College President Daniel R. Porterfield told a crowd of approximately 1,000 in Normandy, France, that the late Maj. Richard Winters had graduated from the college "prepared to lead ...

NORMANDY, France -- On May 26 and 27, 2024, Soldiers from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment participated in Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremonies at the Normandy and Brittany American Cemeteries in France. These ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A group making a second charge to build a World War II memorial off the shores of Normandy hasn't been able to raise the $4 million it needs for a wall baring the names of every ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) - When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Joy and sadness in acute doses poured out Monday on the beaches of Normandy. As several dozen D-Day veterans — now all in their 90s — set foot on the sands that claimed so ...

A 90-year-old D-Day veteran whose song about the World War II invasion is outselling tunes by artists like Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran on Amazon’s singles chart said he is “overwhelmed” by the ...

Jim Radford, 90, released the song to help build a memorial in Normandy. LONDON -- D-Day veteran Jim Radford, 90, has become an unexpected chart-topping sensation in the U.K. with a veterans' tribute ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by ...