Jean-Pierre Salaün at his home in Le Drennec, France, holds a book about the town during World War II. He is incensed that the book talks of horses that were killed, but does not mention his ...

France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II.

In 2005 Senegal's ex-President Abdoulaye Wade (C) - flanked by war veterans - paid his respects to Senegalese WW2 soldiers in France Among the many African soldiers who fought in WW2 are ...

Going into World War II, the French citizenry was not particularly ... Germany occupied the northern half and Atlantic coast of France in 1940, making short work of the French armed forces and ...

Trivellini said the connection started in 2016 when Kiniry sat for an interview regarding his experiences in France, Belgium ...

In December 1944, Senegalese troops who fought for France in World War II were killed for demanding the pay and dignity they were promised. The Thiaroye Massacre, long shrouded in silence, is now ...

They had been ordered to hold back the German advance across France for as long as possible, to enable the evacuation of nearly 340,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk. The men ...

That reporter was France's first female WWII correspondent, but her name was lost to history – until a fellow journalist brought her story to light. France’s news agency, Agence France-Presse ...