FILE - U.S. soldiers stand on the remains of a house as they inspect damage in Carentan, in the Normandy region of France, June 15, 1944. The 80th anniversary this week of D-Day is a mixed bag of ...

U.S. war veterans attend a ceremony to mark the 79th anniversary of the assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control, at the American Cemetery in ...

On the shores of North Africa a French army of liberation is being forged. By the end of the year it may number 400,000 men, more than half black-skinned and all trained for mobile, offensive war. In ...

“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, ...