When General de Gaulle arrived in Paris on 25 August, 1944 to mark the French capital’s liberation from Nazi occupation, his ...

A French diplomat on Wednesday welcomed former World War II medic Andrew "Tim" Kiniry into her country's National Order of ...

Central Catholic graduate Michael Grady won gold at the Paris Olympics with Team USA Rowing, but that wasn’t the only memory ...

The allies and a dwindling number of veterans remembered the month of dramatic fighting that stopped Adolf Hitler's ...

PLABENNEC, France — As the world commemorated the ... "In the public imagination World War II is seen as 'the good war' — especially the Normandy invasion," says Roberts.

General Charles de Gaulle was a member of the French cabinet during the Battle of France in 1940. As French defence forces were increasingly overwhelmed, de Gaulle found himself part of a group of ...

Kerry Washington, who stars in the Tyler Perry-written and produced movie "The Six Triple Eight" meets with Milwaukee ...

The United States, its European allies and a dwindling number of veterans are marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Arthur W. Crossland Jr., 19, of Columbia, South Carolina, who was killed ...

On New Year's Eve, 1944, a 19-year-old Columbia man died in the mountains of France, fighting for his country in World War II ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as ... Seventy years after the end of WWII's Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Department ...

Jean-Pierre Salaün at his home in Le Drennec, France, holds a book about the town during World War II. He is incensed that the book talks of horses that were killed, but does not mention his ...