Editor’s Note: As the 80th anniversary of D-Day nears, the global fight for democracy continues. CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper speaks with World War II veterans and ...

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien lays a wreath at the statue in front of the Juno Beach Centre project during its opening ceremony in Courseulles-Sur-Mer, France, on Friday. The first Canadian ...

King Charles was said to be delighted that his son stood in for him as the monarch could not be there himself amid his cancer treatment Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, ...

The royal was joined by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Canadian D-Day veterans. Some 14,000 Canadians were part of the 150,000 Allied troops who landed ...

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 ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

You’ve seen the black-and-white D-Day photographs taken under fire on the Normandy beaches during Operation Overlord, the pivotal World War II invasion that led to the defeat of Germany in 1945.

The allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944, commonly known as D-day, was an enormously significant moment in the history of the second world war. Commanded by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, D-day ...