A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years ... The day after the invasion, Thornton's unit searched for him, but he was not found. He was officially listed as ...

Overall, more than 2 million soldiers from the U.S. and 250,000 ... less than a year after the D-Day invasion, Germany ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, also known as D-Day. The operation is known ... a way to honor the thousands of Allied soldiers who were injured or killed in the ...

On June 6, 1944, nearly 200,000 sailors landed some 156,000 soldiers on five beaches along the Normandy coast. The D-Day invasion was the largest amphibious invasion in military history ...

He was part of Operation Tiger, where 800 American soldiers lost ... the National D-Day Memorial Foundation is hosting events this week to commemorate the invasion’s 80th anniversary.

His battlefield experiences once led him to declare, "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it ... Eisenhower planning and implementing the D-Day invasion of France. In September 1944 ...

Michael Kraus, Soldiers & Sailors’ curator ... Read more about the heroics of Western Pennsylvanians during the D-Day invasion here. Remove the ads from your TribLIVE reading experience but ...

On June 6th, the people of Portsmouth awoke to find the invasion fleet had gone. All that was left were messages of thanks chalked on to the pavements and walls by soldiers. D-Day had begun.

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

A soldier from Martinsville ... announced in a press release. On D-Day, 34-year-old U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton was part of the second wave of the invasion on Omaha Beach and exited the ...