FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- As the 80th commemoration of D-Day approaches on June 6 a group of veterans in the 82nd Airborne traveled to Normandy for a series of tributes and celebrations. One North ...

NORMANDY, France -- The match became known as "The Game That Never Happened," a planned football exhibition between teams formed within the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division, held amid a winter rest ...

Minutes before plunging to their deaths, five airmen successfully dropped 14 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne near their landing mark over Normandy, France from their C-47. It was just after 2:44 a ...

Nine members of the House of Representatives, all military veterans, did their best impression of the Screaming Eagles Friday, recreating the daring parachute jump by US troops into Normandy, France ...

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday by parachuting out of a World War II-era plane over Normandy, France, just as Allied airborne forces ...

A Cumberland County World War II veteran is headed to France later this year for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in Normandy. Retired Army Col. Sam Kitchen, who turns 98 on April 5, said ...

NORMANDY, France — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day, as Tuesday's ceremonies got underway in honor of those who fought ...

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 ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

Those are the words visitors often hear when entering the Normandy Visitor Center. “That’s what they call it here … not ‘seeing a grave,’ but ‘visiting a soldier,’” wrote Joseph Dunn, of New Orleans.

ON OMAHA BEACH, France - An overwhelming sound of gunfire and men’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day, as Tuesday's ceremonies got underway in honor of those who ...