While President Biden's uncles weren't among the thousands who came ashore on D-Day, they were in the Army and supported the war in other ways. In World War II, millions of women rolled up their sleeves and worked in defense-industry factories, freeing up and equipping men for combat. Few witnesses remain who remember the storied Allied assault and history’s biggest amphibious invasion. Vets, many of them centenarians and likely returning for one last time, pilgrimaged to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landings on June 6, 1944. Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in D-Day, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. WWII vets are converging on France to revisit old memories, make new ones and hammer home a message D-Day survivors have repeated time and time again. Searchers announced Thursday they’ve discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong’s plane. Five Hawaii men, who served as Japanese-language linguists, received the medals posthumously decades after they died in the final moments of WWII. The story of prolific World War II photographer Lee Miller, who documented the horrors at Dachau, is coming to the big screen. On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old Army medic. Now 99, he's about to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the landings in Normandy. Load More