As the D-Day landings began on Omaha Beach, Allied forces were met with devastating German fire, and their pre-invasion ...

Operation Avalanche was not going well. Body counts were quickly adding up and the allied invasion of Italy at Salerno during ...

Guided walks are being offered at a former World War Two airfield to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings. RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire was home to US paratroopers who were some of the first ...

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 ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior ...

But life took a sharp turn when World War II came along, Mullins joined the army and ended up in the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles," where, at just 19, he served in the Allies' D-Day ...

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 ...

The mission comes amid mounting fears that China is planning to launch a full-scale invasion of the ... already drilled huge D-Day style assaults of Taiwan using soldiers, marines, warships ...

The ferry from Portsmouth to Caen is the most atmospheric way to visit the D-Day battlefields, if not always the most ...

Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy ... A World War II veteran talks to a soldier at the end of a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the Bayeux War Cemetery ...