David Niven The popular British actor and author, who won his only best Oscar foe 1958's "Separate Tables," participated in ...

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who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the invasion so he could honor the men who ...

But life took a sharp turn when World War II came along, Mullins joined the army and ended up in the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles," where, at just 19, he served in the Allies' D-Day ...

have converged here to honor and commemorate the men who jumped into Nazi-occupied France during the D-Day invasion on the morning of June 6, 1944. Among those jumping to mark the 80th anniversary ...

KB Smith served aboard the USS Satterlee and fired the first shots before the invasion, is the last surviving member of his ...

When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, ...