DEAUVILLE AIRPORT, France (AP) — ‘’To our forever heroes: Thank you” — those words inscribed by French schoolchildren on a big poster greeted dozens of U.S. World War II veterans, many in their 100s, ...

PLABENNEC, France — As the world commemorated the 80th anniversary this year of the D-Day landings at Normandy and the liberation of Europe from the Nazis, one French family finally began to come to ...

SAINT-LO, France, June 5 (Reuters) - As world leaders gathered to celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, French President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to the thousands of civilian victims of Allied ...

SUMMERVILLE — Grave plot No. 31 in Normandy, France, will share American soil for the first time since a young paratrooper from North Dakota was buried there. The handful of earth comes from Stephanie ...

Widely seen as a turning point in World War II, the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day, has long been the subject of viral rumors with varying levels of legitimacy. As the ...

Believed to be the last surviving Frenchman to wade ashore with Americans, he was attached to an Army unit that stormed Utah Beach and helped drive Germans out of France. By Phil Davison Jacques Lewis ...

FILE - French WWII veteran of the Commando Kieffer Leon Gautier attends a ceremony in tribute to the 177 French members of the "Commando Kieffer" Fusiliers Marins commando unit who took part in the ...

PARIS - French officers pinned the Legion of Honor on the chests of 99 former American soldiers Saturday, thanking them at a pomp-filled military ceremony for helping to free Europe from Nazism 60 ...

“We were at the head of the landing,” he said. “The British let us go a few meters in front. For us it was the liberation of France, the return into the family.” By The Associated Press Léon Gautier, ...