June 1944 marked a defining moment in World War 2, with two crucial operations taking place simultaneously. While the US military was engaging in the vital Overlord operation in France, the US Navy, ...

DILLSBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– Their official designation was Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, or LCVP. Usually, they were just called Landing Craft. Sometimes they were called Higgins boats after their ...

Francis Dalton, 103, lands in Washington, D.C., following his Honor Flight from Clarksburg to visit the national World War II Memorial in September. (File Photo) Francis Dalton never forgot the rustle ...

The American heroes who stormed onto Normandy Beach 81 years ago to free Europe from Nazi tyranny are almost all gone now. Yet their heroism will never be forgotten. One who was there and survived was ...

Richard Rung was a 19-year-old sailor on a Navy vessel approaching the shores of Omaha Beach in Nazi-occupied France just after dawn on June 6, 1944. Rung was one of 160,000 Allied troops landing in ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...