MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — Senator Richard Blumenthal was in Middletown on Monday meeting Connecticut veterans to discuss his recent visit to Normandy, France to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, ...

The sky was cloudy and overcast over suburban New York on the morning of June 6th, 2024. On any other day, it would've just been another typical dreary, slightly wet Thursday afternoon. One full of ...

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen. Its success heralded the beginning of the ...

Standing this week on what, on D-Day, were the blood-soaked sands of Omaha Beach, World War II fighter pilot Fredric Taylor found himself thinking of a high school friend who was killed in a ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

Among the returning veterans are two "Rosie the Riveters." U.S. veterans and families are traveling to Normandy on the northwest coast of France to pay their respects and commemorate the 80th ...

Anniversaries have a way of making us reflect on the lessons of the past. On June 6, the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the largest amphibious invasion in history. On that day in 1944 — ...

A 102-year-old World War II veteran died Friday while en route to France to take part in the remembrances planned for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, according to news reports and a ...

Visiting the D-Day beaches in Normandy is one of the most powerful and sobering experiences you can have in France. Scattered along the coast are remnants of the largest amphibious invasion in history ...

Shay, who grew up on Indian Island, near Old Town, was an Army medic during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. He ...