A series of holiday beaches in Devon, in the United Kingdom, were once vital training grounds that contributed to the success ...

The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books about World War II. For histories of the war in Europe, Ambrose ...

Just two weeks after American forces landed at Normandy on D-Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting helplessly, Tueller ...

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 Adolf Hitler's regime. Along the ...

Over the past year, WCCO has shared stories about a 101-year-old World War II veteran from Bloomington. We caught up with Les Schrenk on the beaches of Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day last ...

Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...

Wars are won by logistics as much as by weapons. Operation PLUTO gave the Allies a hidden advantage during World War II — an undersea pipeline that kept tanks, trucks, and aircraft moving after D-Day.

Not even a government shutdown can ground the Army Air Corps ahead of the Air Force versus Army football game on Saturday. No, that’s not a typo. Even though the planned flyover by the Air Force and ...

The remains of a Houston man were identified 81 years after his landing craft sank during the D-Day landings of World War II, according to a news release Friday from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...