These battleships were among the finest ever engineered—and are rightly sources of great national pride from an otherwise ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much ...

Army Staff Sgt. William Owens was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for defending la fiere bridge during ...

Day, which marked the beginning of the end of WWII, are taking place against a backdrop of transatlantic uncertainty. Nevertheless, when Deutsche Welle’s Lisa Bryant visited the village of Baupte in ...

The story began in France, just after the D-Day invasion, in June 1944. My father, Lt. Donald Johnson, was a Seabee, a civil ...

A new book aims to preserve the stories of the prisoners at an all-female Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, who ...

The largest artifact in the touring exhibition Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away., currently on display at the ROM in ...

Marthe Cohn, a French Jewish woman who served as a spy ... countless lives of Allied soldiers beyond enemy lines in World War II. Cohn received the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille Militaire ...

He was on the road between St. Laurent and St. Lo out front with a mine detector when he was killed by machine gun fire. He ...

A young Marine from El Campo was one of 241 who gave their lives in a now often-overlooked terroristic attack that shocked ...

After becoming a stage sensation in France, the American-born Josephine Baker undertook espionage for the Allies in World War II.

In line with the principal ceremony at Place de l’Étoile in Paris, presided by French President Emmanuel Macron, the Consulate joined French diplomatic missions elsewhere to mark the ...