"It means a lot to our family," said their niece From working on the railroad to serving in the U.S. Navy, twin brothers Julius “Henry” and Ludwig “Louie” Pieper experienced life together — including ...

One hundred fifty World War II U.S. veterans, along with volunteers and representatives from the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), were present at Normandy American Cemetery in France to ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France – A single sentence in the fading pages of Louise Hamel’s diary documents the first moments of the day that would become a turning point in World War II. Tuesday, June 6, ...

Photos from the burial with full military honors of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. William J. McGowan, of Benson, on July 9, 2022, at Normandy American Cemetery in France. A cross marks the grave of U.S ...

State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-121, Wilkes-Barre, presented Andrea Bogusko, a representative of the NEPA Music Teachers Association, with a proclamation from the state of Pennsylvania to be ...

For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred. On Tuesday, the soldier would have his identity recovered — and be reunited with ...

The commemoration of D-Day this year marks a special one for Susan Lawrence, and not just because it’s the 75th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. For Lawrence, it’s also the first one when the ...

Visitors’ voices and footsteps cannot penetrate the vast quietude of this site. Crosses march in place to silent drums. White and pristine, they mark the last place so many American troops stopped.