PARIS (AP) -- Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a ...

Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the bloodiest and most fiercely contested landings of the Normandy invasion. U.S. forces faced heavily fortified German defenses, rough seas, and deadly ...

Jake Larson, better known to millions as “Papa Jake,” died recently at the age of 102. Larson, a highly decorated World War II veteran and one of the last surviving members of the soldiers who landed ...

PARIS -- D-Day veteran Papa Jake Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy's bluffs in 1944 and garnered 1.2 million followers on TikTok late in life by sharing stories to commemorate World War ...