Army Veteran William George Beem participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy and was part of the first tank crew to cross the Rhine.
Richard “Dick” Winters served in the Army during World War II where he received several medals and inspired the hit HBO series Band of Brothers.
2019 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the single most pivotal day in World War II. In the early hours of June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched greatest combination of sea, land and air power in history headed for Normandy.
Alice Jeannette McGrath Albersheim served wounded World War II Veterans as a member of the Red Cross.
On the 74th anniversary of D-Day, Penobscot tribal elder Charles Norman Shay returns to the beaches of the Normandy Landing.
Veteran Jack Whipple landed behind enemy lines on D-Day in a glider made of plywood. With enemy flak, old maps and a field too small, he had to dig a wing into the ground to stop his craft.
Earl McClung was one of the original members of ‘Easy’ Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Regiment, of the 101st Airborne Division.
Bud More joined the Army and was assigned to the 90th Infantry Division, D Company, 359th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1st Platoon as a machine gunner during World War II.
Charles is a Penobscot Indian from Maine. In 1943, he was drafted into the Army at 19 years old. Charles became a combat medic deployed during WWII.
Coast Guard Veteran Donald Dewar served on the USS Joseph T. Dickman and was part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.
Army Veteran Russell Mack Baldwin served in War World II and fought in both the Battle of the Bulge and D-Day.
On June 6th, 1944, over 160,000 Allied troops descended on […]