PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha ...

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

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

A soldier of the First U.S. Army shows the Distinguished Service Cross while another holds the portrait of of Waverly Woodson Jr., a medic who was part of the only Black combat unit to take part in ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — Under their feet, the sands of Omaha Beach, and in their rheumy eyes, tears that inevitably flowed from being on the revered shoreline in Normandy, France, where so many American ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...

OMAHA BEACH, FranceOMAHA BEACH, France — A brief timeline of events on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Shortly after midnight: More than 2,200 Allied aircraft begin bombing German defenses and other targets in ...

Shay, from the Penobscot Nation, was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives.

OMAHA BEACH, France — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings was tenderly laid Friday on the hallowed sands where he ...

WWII veterans from around the world are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler's defeat. (Jeremias Gonzalez/AP) OMAHA BEACH, France — Under their ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — A medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach in the D-Day landings has been tenderly laid on the hallowed sands where ...