CHICAGO -- Vietnam veteran Jerome Weatherspoon has a special hobby. Weatherspoon, a 67-year-old retiree, reconstructed the battle scene of the Invasion of Normandy, complete with replica war planes ...

“Band of Brothers: Most Hated in Normandy 1944 – Then and Now” explores the dramatic events surrounding the Allied invasion of Normandy and the fierce battles that followed. Focusing on the soldiers ...

Updates will soon come to New Orleans' World War II Museum.

D-Day veterans discuss the challenges they faced at the invasion of Normandy. NORMANDY, France, June 5, 2009 — -- You can learn the most interesting things riding on a train. The train I'd chosen ...

CHARLESTON — One of the last times Pfc. Hubert Smoak wrote home to the family farm in Colleton County, he said he was prepared to fight. Just as importantly, the 28-year-old Army soldier told his ...

RICHMOND, Texas -- It's not often you get to meet someone who is 100 years old. Lucian Baskin has lived for a century. He has lived through 18 presidents, the civil rights movement, and the dawn of ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest military invasion in history, a nearly miraculous feat known as D-Day and a major turning point of World War II. Thursday marks the 80th anniversary ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...

Normandy is a region in northern France that truly has it all – dramatic coastlines, charming villages, fascinating cities, ...