About two years ago I was talking with Mike, a friend of mine I've known since Ronald Reagan was still in the White House, and he asked me a question out of left field: What if we went on a tour of ...

On June 7, 1944, amid the hedgerows and swamps of Normandy, a fierce clash unfolded between the American 101st Airborne and Germany’s elite paratroopers. Despite being dangerously short on supplies, U ...

Pedro Vera drove an Army ambulance, ferrying the wounded to field hospitals, on D-Day and at the Battle of the Bulge. Somehow ...

It was this lane, fringed by shade trees and the deep-rooted tangle of hedgerows known as bocage—an ancient Normandy feature that had, since the landings on June 6, 1944, entangled both invaders ...

A local veteran of the Normandy Invasion is returning to France to mark an event that paved the way for the liberation of Europe during World War II.

Normandy occupies a prominent place in the Allied mind, as the scale of the D-Day tourism industry attests. In 2023 nearly 22m people visited Normandy’s landing beaches, 56% French and the rest ...

The dense hedgerows of Normandy took longer to fight through than expected. Still, by late summer of 1944, Allied trips had captured Paris and were racing toward the French-German border.

World War II reenactors gather on Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, Sunday, June 6, 2021, the day of 77th anniversary of the assault that helped bring an end to World War II.

“These are the men who enabled liberty to regain a foothold on the European continent, and who in the days and weeks that followed lifted the shackles of tyranny, hedgerow by Normandy hedgerow ...

The 77th anniversary of D-Day was marked Sunday with several events to commemorate the decisive assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control, and honor those ...