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 on D-Day.

The Normandy coastline has always carried Charles Shay’s heartbeat in its sand. At 19, he hit Omaha Beach with nothing but a ...

Maine will lower flags on Friday to honor Charles Norman Shay, the decorated Penobscot elder and D-Day medic who died last ...

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a decorated veteran, he was forbidden to vote as a Native American.

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.

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, ...

A vivid account of soldiers facing intense enemy fire on Omaha Beach during D-Day, highlighting courage, tactics, and the ...

Shay was a combat medic assigned to an assault battalion in the first wave of attack on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (Virginia Mayo/AP Photo) Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a ...