We need never be ashamed of our tears," writes guest columnist Mark Hodermarsky, a retired Saint Ignatius High School English ...

Charles Norman Shay, a Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed off the Normandy coast on ...

Day, Juan Pujol (now Agent Garbo) executed the most critical deception of World War II, convincing Hitler personally that Normandy was merely a diversion for the real invasion at Pas-de-Calais.

"Speak to an old man about his youth, and you awaken a memory that time cannot erase," says the director, who secured oral ...

Retired cricketer and BBC Radio Solent commentator Kevan James has been remembering his former teammate and England batter ...

Charles Norman Shay has been called a remarkable hero who embodied the best of our state. Mainers are remembering and ...

Belfast-born, Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog was a son of Ireland, through and through. Educated at Irish colleges, fluent in ...

The ghosts of the past loom large in The Great Escaper, and not only because its plot concerns an elderly man grappling with his traumatic wartime experiences. Oliver Parker’s feature is the final ...

Belfast-born, Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog was a son of Ireland, through and through. Educated at Irish colleges, fluent in Irish and with an Irish brogue he carried with him through life, Herzog was a ...

Based on the true story of Bernard Jordan, an 89-year-old veteran of the D-Day landings, who in 2014 sneaked out of his seaside care home where he lived with his wife, Rene, to board a cross-channel ...

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Day, June 6, 1944. This video compares wartime photographs and footage with modern-day views of the same locations, showing how the beachfront, defenses, and towns behind it have transformed over 80 ...