The invasion of Normandy, widely known as the D-Day operation, came on June 6, 1944. The huge military operation brought ...

About a month before the Allied invasion of a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, France, Leonard Zerlin, then a 20-year-old B-26 turret gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps, had a sense ...

On this day, Operation Overlord began as Allied forces lined up against the Axis powers and began an invasion of Normandy, France. When the Allies needed to pick an appropriate landing site ...

Learn more about the Airborne Assault on D-Day The Invasion Star was used on American ... children's toy that paratroopers carried during the initial Normandy jump to use as a recognition signal ...

both icons of the D-DAY Airborne invasion. For those not able to travel to Normandy for the D-DAY 80 celebrations, I hope this video provides an insight into the quality of museums in Normandy ...

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 ...

Utah Beach Utah Beach was one of the two American landing zones on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Situated on the Cotentin Peninsula, it was the westernmost beach of the five Normandy landings. Despite the ...

Some 4,000 Allied troops were killed in the invasion. Goss knows he was one of the lucky ones to make it back home. He traveled to Normandy with his daughter and nephew. Separately, many other ...

Following last week’s “sister-city” visit from a Carentan, France, contingent to Christian County, one thing can be certain.

In April 1944, American troops took part in a top-secret rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, on Slapton Sands in Devon, England. Unfortunately the operation, known as Exercise Tiger ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division ... the 1st U.S. Army during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.