For the American World War II veterans, all in their late 90s or early 100s, the event marked what will be one of the last times they gather to publicly relay what they endured and how it shaped them.

Blakeman was born Jan. 30, 1924, in Kansas City, Missouri. He joined the United States Army in March of 1943. In May 1944, he sailed to England on a Liberty ship. He landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy, ...

Time is running out for the last living U.S. veterans of World War II. At 102 years old — “103 next month,” he said with a grin — Robert Heiss spends his afternoons playing cribbage and devouring ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Descendants of the 661st Tank Destroyer Battalion visited central Ohio this week to hear from the last living member of their fathers’ unit: Columbus resident Marvin Brown.

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly ...