Waverly Woodson Jr., who served in an all-black unit during WWII, has been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 wounded men — all while small arms and artillery fire pummeled the beach — before ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. treated 200 men during D-Day — all while he was injured. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) hosted the posthumous ceremony Tuesday.

With a color guard Waverly Woodson never got to see, a National Anthem he would never hear and applause he’d never get to ...

Chris Van Hollen completed his nine-year effort to have the U.S. Army fully recognize the valor of African American D-Day ...

Waverly B. Woodson Jr. was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II.

Waverly B. Woodson Jr.’s 95-year-old widow was presented Tuesday with the Distinguished Service Cross he was awarded ...

Bedford, Virginia, is well known for the tremendous toll taken on the town by the events of the D-Day Invasion during World War II.

The son of a Wigan soldier who stormed ashore in Normandy has made a 30ft model of the floating harbour that was key to the ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy ... the greatest battle in American military history. "None of these men knew each other in 1944, but ...

A D-DAY hero unaware he was part of the invasion ... The Germans firing, we had our ships all firing. “Men were getting off the ships onto the landing craft. And as they were going in, they ...