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

Jewish D-Day hero Mervyn Kersh stormed Nazi-held France in 1944 and later helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ...

10:55, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 Updated: 10:57, Thu, Oct 23, 2025 A 100-year-old veteran paid tribute to 1,475 fallen comrades as “the real heroes” after a stunning art installation opened overlooking the ...

Robert “Al” Persichitti, a 102-year-old Navy veteran of World War II, died Friday morning while on a trip to attend the 80th memorial celebration of the Allied forces’ pivotal D-Day invasion. Mr.

NORMANDY, France -- John Brown was 20 years old when he joined the Army Air Forces in 1947. World War II was over, but he still wanted to serve, eventually finding himself with the Army's occupation ...

NORMANDY, France (KLTV) - On Saturday, June 8, the Longview High School Choir made a visit to the Normandy American Cemetery, a day after their scheduled performance during a commemoration ceremony ...

Veterans from the U.S., Britain and Canada, more than two dozen heads of state and countless others took to the beaches of Normandy and elsewhere this week to mark the 80th anniversary of the June 6, ...

A local company is making sure the sacrifice that WWII heroes made is never forgotten.A Lebanon-based stone and monument creator behind several famous monuments across the U.S. created a memorial in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. VER-SUR-MER, France (AP) — King Charles III ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — On June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, 73,000 of them American. In total, the landings claimed the lives of over 4,400 troops. And on Thursday, 80 years ...

The surviving veterans of D-Day, most in wheelchairs, were again in Normandy on Thursday, as they remembered the day 80 years ago when they stormed French beaches to claw back the European continent ...