A series of holiday beaches in Devon, in the United Kingdom, were once vital training grounds that contributed to the success ...

Over the past year, WCCO has shared stories about a 101-year-old World War II veteran from Bloomington. We caught up with Les Schrenk on the beaches of Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day last ...

Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler's regime. Along the ...

Sheboygan WWII veteran Staff Sgt. Leonard Ploeckelman will be posthumously honored with a Congressional Gold Medal. Ploeckelman was a U.S. Army Ranger who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He served ...

Wars are won by logistics as much as by weapons. Operation PLUTO gave the Allies a hidden advantage during World War II — an ...

The last of the ships that some credit with winning World War II for the Allies has plowed through the waters of the Midwest, where people got a chance to visit it.

The remains of a Houston man were identified 81 years after his landing craft sank during the D-Day landings of World War II, according to a news release Friday from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...