On June 6, 1944, American forces landed at Utah Beach, the westernmost sector of the Normandy invasion. In just 15 seconds, ...

PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay ...

Charles Norman Shay was believed to be the last of roughly 500 Native American soldiers who came ashore at Normandy, France ...

Shay was awarded the Silver Star for repeatedly plunging into the sea and carrying critically wounded soldiers to relative safety.

On the 6th of June 1944, D-Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of ...

Charles Norman Shay, a Native American who risked his life to save “countless” fellow soldiers during the D-Day landings near Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, died Wednesday at the age of 101.

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

A Monroe County father lost all three of his sons in World War II, two of them aboard the USS Arizona. Four other area men ...

Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for ...

Bonnie McClure was just a young girl when her uncle, Clifford Keeney, an Army Airman fighting in World War II, was shot down in Germany while on a mission in 1944. Keeney was listed as killed in ...