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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, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on ...
What else did these amazing women do during World War II?” Washington, D.C., fifth-grader Raya Kenney thought as she watched ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scott Applewhite/AP “There were ordinary men called to extraordinary valor ... “With the fate of the free world on the line, Army Rangers led the way.” It was during the D-Day invasion on the beaches ...
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.
The majority of news outlets like to bandy about words like “autocracy” or “authoritarianism” or “holding centers,” but make ...
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 ...
FOUR World War Two heroes flew by private jet to France yesterday to mark the 81st anniversary of D-Day. They joined five other veterans who were well enough to attend a moving service at the… ...
Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.