Francis ‘Jim’ Grant joined the Royal Marines aged 18 in 1943 and served until 1946, patrolling beaches and escorting allied ...

U.S. soldiers assist American WWII veteran Fred Taylor during a ceremony on Omaha Beach, Tuesday, June 4 in Normandy. World War II veterans from across the United States as well as Britain and Canada ...

CLARKSBURG, Md. — Army Corporal Waverly Woodson, who settled in Clarksburg, Maryland after the war, was part of the massive Allied invasion of France that pushed out Nazi Germany and turned the tide ...

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. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

The first time Harold Terens traveled to Normandy, he was 20 years old, a U.S. Army Air Forces corporal, and tasked with bringing freed American prisoners of war to England days after D-Day in 1944 — ...

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...

(NewsNation) — Just 80 years after Harold Terens landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the D-Day operation, he made another memory at the site: marrying his fiancée, Jeanne Swerlin.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ceremonies in Chicago and the suburbs commemorated those who gave their lives for freedom 80 years ago on the beaches of Normandy. Wreaths were laid in the city commemorating the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Eighty years ago, 150,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France on D-Day to rescue Europe from the tyranny of Nazi Germany. A local man who was there that day returned to Utah ...

CARENTAN-LES-MARAIS, France — Together, the collective age of the bride and groom was nearly 200. But World War II veteran Harold Terens and his sweetheart Jeanne Swerlin proved that love is eternal ...

The two tied the knot Saturday near the place he and nearly 160,000 others landed on June 6, 1944, in the fight against the Nazis. “I just love this place. It has horrific memories for me,” Terens ...