It took 43 days to liberate this small, northern French town seven decades ago. And in the time since, locals have carried with them the memory of the American major from Staunton who rallied his ...

SAINT-LÔ, France — He was 6 when Allied warplanes turned his town to rubble. Yves Fauvel says the flashbacks still come regularly: The D-Day evening sky thrumming with American bombers; the screams of ...

Seventy-five years ago, with the nation in the throes of a world war, a story of valor emerged from the fighting as the U.S. and its allies battled to liberate France. Weeks had passed since the June ...

Nebraska National Guard soldiers with the 134th Infantry Regiment and the 100th Medical Battalion helped liberate St. Lo France, about 20 miles from Omaha Beach. The battle cost the lives of 53 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron will pay homage to D-Day civilian victims in commemorations Wednesday in Saint-Lo, a Normandy town that became emblematic of losses from Allied bombing when it was ...

Army combat photographer Walter T. Halloran received the Silver Star medal in a field ceremony in the kitchen of a French farmhouse during World War II. Now, more than six decades later, that award ...

Editor's note: The original version of this story included incorrect spellings for two of the students' names and the location of St.-Lo, near the Normandy coast. The story has been updated. Bob ...

Stunning before and after images show how northern France has recovered from the months-long battles which followed D-Day when Allied bombardments and paratroopers forced the Nazis out. Warships, ...