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Honoring WWII Navy Veteran JL Stevens on his 100th birthday, reflecting on his service, including D-Day, with the West Texas VA Health Care System.

June 6, 2024 was the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings that turned the tide of World War II. It was commemorated on France's Normandy coast during the first two weeks of June 2024 with events remembering, celebrating and honoring the thousands of American and Allied service members whose enormous sacrifices liberated Europe.

General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the oldest man and the only general to participate in the first wave of landings on D-Day.

Two Army Veterans, a judge and a renowned photographer, will be honored June 6th, the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, by the New York Mets during the mid-day game at Citi Field.

Drafted in 1943, Clifford Stump of the famed 82nd Airborne Division will celebrate his 95th birthday one week after the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a day he experienced firsthand, and will soon relive, as he returns to the shores of France for the first time since he fought their in 1944.

On June 6, 1944, Onofrio “No-No” Zicari stormed Omaha Beach in one of the deadliest battles of World War II: D-Day.

A young woman retraces her grandfather's steps from D-Day and befriends his fellow survivors. The documentary Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day is a story about memory, inter-generational relationships, and the human desire to commemorate.

2019 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the single most pivotal day in World War II. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched greatest combination of sea, land and air power in history headed for Normandy.

Alice Jeannette McGrath Albersheim served wounded World War II Veterans as a member of the Red Cross.

Veteran Jack Whipple landed behind enemy lines on D-Day in a glider made of plywood. With enemy flak, old maps and a field too small, he had to dig a wing into the ground to stop his craft.

Today, at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., Veterans and their community gathered to honor those that fought on D-Day.

On June 6th, 1944, over 160,000 Allied troops descended on [...]