Britain and its Second World War allies had been planning the biggest, most audacious air and seaborne invasion in history: D-Day. Since 1940 most of Western Europe had been occupied by Nazi Germany.

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 ...

While the D-Day battlefront is now a significant part of history, you can honor its legacy by recreating it at home. You'll ...

But by the end of June 6, 1944, the world knew the Normandy invasion was under way ... Missouri at Rolla and author of "The Americans at D-Day." The Allies went to elaborate lengths to maintain ...

But on D-Day it was one of the first ships of the British and Allied invasion force that unleashed fury on the forces of Nazi Germany that lay just across the Channel. If the invasion was ...

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 ...

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop Thursday, June 6, 2024 4:01 a.m. | Thursday, June 6, 2024 4:01 a.m. Warren Goss watched as soldiers in front of him dropped — struck down by enemy fire — after the ramp ...

In May 1944, the Western Allies were finally prepared to deliver their greatest blow of the war, the long-delayed, cross-channel invasion of ... and descriptions of D-Day, as it came to be known ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...

Paul Guggenheimer Thursday, June 6, 2019 5:02 p.m. | Thursday, June 6, 2019 5:02 p.m. The beaches of Normandy, France, during the D-Day invasion 75 years ago have been called a “killing zone.” ...