Staff Sgt. William D. Owen's Bronze Star was posthumously upgraded to the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during WWII. (Courtesy 505th Regimental Combat Team/James J. Ricci family ...

John Wardell is one of just five remaining Army Rangers out of 6,500 in World War II, and he has been honored with a ...

John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on ...

That is, if they made it ashore at all. Many men drowned when their landing craft were swamped by seawater in the choppy English Channel. Weighed down by a hundred pounds of gear strapped to their ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — 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 ...

The majority of news outlets like to bandy about words like “autocracy” or “authoritarianism” or “holding centers,” but make ...

The hardest part of his repeated trips to the beach on D-Day, Schultze said, was removing "the dog tags off of the dead soldiers floating in the water. That got to me.

The Army's website says that "the more poetic insist D-Day is short for 'day of decision.'" Asked in 1964, Eisenhower instructed his assistant Brig. Gen. Robert Schultz, to answer.

Capt. Leonard Schroeder Jr. was the first of about 21,000 4th Infantry Division soldiers to land on Utah Beach in France on June 6, 1944. He made the trip among nervous men in the dark, who prayed ...

The Birth of Military Protests Much of modern military protest traces back to the original Bonus Army, according to James Ridgway, a veterans law scholar and lecturer at George Washington University.

The men who invaded Normandy, France, on D-Day were not the only ones who helped the Allies win that World War II battle. “More than three years of efforts by hundreds of executives and ...