When POWs awoke at Stalag Luft I on May 1, 1945, the German guards had disappeared and a hand sewn Stars and Stripes replaced the swastika on the flagpole. The Red Army arrived a day later.
While the Overlord operation was a combined effort of land, sea, and air forces, the amphibious assault plan was given the code name Neptune.
Merchant Marine, Louis Taix of New Orleans, Louisiana, was lost at sea when the SS Nicarao was sunk by a German submarine U-751 on the night of May 15, 1942, in the Bahama Islands.
This column is the second of three D-Day columns written by war correspondent Ernie Pyle describing the Allied invasion of Normandy.
In a strange case of life after death, the resurrected guns of the USS Arizona fired at the end of the war.
Viewed through the lens of the average camera or motion picture, World War II is often recorded and remembered as a black and white war.
Join us for a screening of a 15-minute long animated film Minor Accident of War, based on a poem by writer and poet Edward Field.
