Jewish D-Day hero Mervyn Kersh stormed Nazi-held France in 1944 and later helped liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ...

As the battle for Normandy unfolded, X Troop commandos played a critical role in securing Pegasus Bridge before German reinforcements could counterattack. While bagpipes and legends shaped the ...

Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous ...

Band of Brothers' wasn't just about the literal events of the war but the bonds that formed among men in combat.

CAEN, France — The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep, dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant patch of ...

Today, we commemorate the 81st anniversary of the legendary Battle of the Bulge—the largest and deadliest battle fought by American forces in the Second ...

PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Charles Norman Shay, a Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed off the Normandy coast on D-Day and helped save lives, died at age 101 on ...

What was meant to be a swift D-Day objective became a two-month meat grinder. In the ruins of the medieval city of Caen, British and Canadian troops faced a nightmare of fanatical SS and Hitler Youth ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Curio is a CNN Style series spotlighting small objects and the big ideas behind them. In an age when clocks are found in most pockets and on every screen, watchmaker Col&MacArthur’s ...

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Looking out at Falaise from William The Conqueror’s medieval castle, Chateau Guillaume-le-Conquerant, Normandy, France. Most of my adventure reporting airs on the extreme side - flying supersonic in ...