The Normandy beaches became a battleground in the struggle to free France and Europe at large from the hold of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion, which included land, sea and air forces, was ...

Ceremonies this week a week mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Soldiers from across the United States, Britain, Canada and other Allied nations waded ashore through hails of fire on five beaches on ...

This photograph is believed to show E Company, 16th Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, participating in the first wave of assaults during D-Day in Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. (Chief Photographer's ...

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The Americans had been pushing for an invasion of northwest Europe from soon after they joined the War in 1941. There was great pressure, too, from the Soviet Union, which was desperate for its allies ...

Their target was an elegant, two-story villa sitting solitary on a misty beach. No houses stood nearby, just minefields, military pillboxes and enemy machine gun posts. It was D-Day, and on that ...

Eighty years after it happened, D-Day – the largest land, sea and air invasion ever attempted – still resonates today. With the bold invasion of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944, the Allied forces ...

President Biden and key U.S. allies were in Normandy Thursday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the U.S.-led allied forces' D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. The brazen air and sea invasion ...

The number of vets, especially those who participated in D-Day, is dwindling. Seventy-nine years ago, on June 6, 1944, more than 156,000 Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on D-Day. "It was one ...

Aug. 13—CONNEAUT — WW2 Armor will be returning to D-Day Conneaut this year, bringing a number of items to the event. "We're a self-propelled museum, we take these things to events where ever we can ...

Brendan Fraser has been cast in an epic WW2 movie set in the run-up to D-Day. The Oscar-winning actor will play Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower in tense ticking-clock drama Pressure, ...

A Piper-built L-4 aircraft on display at the Kentucky Aviation Museum on June 4 in Lexington, Kentucky. Alexis Baker On the 80th anniversary of the military invasion that toppled Nazi Germany, ...