D-Day pilot Richard Heyman, who died at 101, was posthumously awarded France's highest honor for his WWII service.

Firefighters in South Carolina were called to an unusual incident in which 30 people were reportedly trapped on a retired ...

Roy Burr served as a pathfinder helping pinpoint drop zones for troops on D-day.

The new film stars Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower during the final, tense days leading up to D-Day, dealing with ...

One of Britain’s last surviving members of the 6th Airborne Division which took part in D Day has died aged 99. Roy Burr was one of just a handful of its troops left. The 6th Airborne Division was ...

On June 6, 1944, we move inland from Utah Beach to follow paratroopers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division as they fight north ...

Andrew Scott, Kerry Condon and Damian Lewis also star in the World War II film hitting theaters in May.

NOTE D-Day is a military term for the day on which an operation is to be initiated. I am using the term in that way, and in ...

To many, Colonel Richard "Dick" Heyman may not be a well known name but his story is similar to many young men during World War II. Growing up in ...

Flashbacks is a weekly series looking back at the over 100-year history of The News Leader and its place across the Staunton, Augusta County region.

The new film tells the true tale of how the success of D-Day and Operation Overlord hinged upon a weather forecast.

The Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, broke the spine of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall and opened the decisive Western Front, ...