Day. It was the Allied invasion of France—the beginning of the Allies’ retaking power in continental Europe—and one of the ...

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops ...

The French suffered 476 casualties in the Battle of Puebla, while the outnumbered Mexicans only suffered 339. May 5 is celebrated in Mexican-American communities throughout the United States as ...

SAN ANTONIO – Thousands of fans packed the Alamo Stadium for the 89th annual Battle of Flowers Band Festival on Thursday. The program was cut short due to inclement weather, but all 41 schools ...

performers and others marching through downtown for the event that started it all — the Battle of Flowers Parade. Music from the marching bands and cries of “Show me your shoes!” ...

The City of San Antonio is adding additional road closures around downtown to accommodate the incredibly popular Battle of Flowers and Flambeau parades, which are following the same route as last ...

The struggle to find a cheap house in America is transforming some places with lower-priced homes into battlefields, pitting Wall Street landlords and other investor-owners against traditional ...

“So we’ll be ready.” That about says it all. Welcome to the Battle of Ontario, where history shows the wild, the weird and the wacky can bust out at any time on the ice, in the stands or ...

The Battle of Saint-Lô was one of the three major conflicts in ... the group suffered high casualties while managing to secure Formigny and Caumont in the beachhead. D-Day claimed many Axis and Allied ...

Her father lived through the battle as a combat correspondent. Feb. 23, 2025 Iwo Jima has always been beautiful, a volcanic chunk of rock surrounded by cobalt sea. But a World War II battle 80 ...

To identify every aircraft that fought in the Battle of Midway, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a catalog of aircraft from Military Factory, an online database of arms, vehicles and aircraft. We ordered ...

In the greatest upset in warfare since Frenchmen first routed Britons with artillery (at the battle of Formigny in 1450) he had picked in advance the winner of every round. In Poland and the ...