NORMANDY, France (KLTV) - On day four of their trip abroad, the Longview High School Choir visited Omaha Beach, one of five sites in Normandy involved in the initial D-Day invasion. Omaha Beach was ...

Richard Rung not only taught history to his students at Wheaton College. He helped make history as a sailor who landed on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion in World War II. Rung, a Carol Stream ...

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, ...

World War II veteran Steven Melnikoff, who bravely stormed Omaha Beach, made a triumphant return to honor his brothers in arms on the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The 104-year-old veteran sat down with ...

The surviving veterans of D-Day, most in wheelchairs, were again in Normandy on Thursday, as they remembered the day 80 years ago when they stormed French beaches to claw back the European continent ...

U.S. President Joe Biden greets U.S. World War II veteran Victor Chaney after French President Emmanuel Macron awarded 11 veterans the Légion d’Honneur at the Normandy American Cemetery during a ...

It's been a lifetime, literally, since the invasion of the beaches at Normandy in France in 1944. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the event historians often refer to as the beginning of the ...

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. Its success heralded the beginning of the ...

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 – ...