More than 156,000 Allied troops landed by sea on five beaches – code-named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword – or parachuted behind German defenses. Almost 4,500 of them were killed on D-Day ...

11 A Cromwell tank leads a British Army column inland from Gold Beach after landing on D-Day in Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy. 12 U.S. army paratroopers drive a captured German vehicle on D-Day in ...

The US troops were assigned to Utah beach at the base of the Cotentin Peninsular and Omaha beach at the northern end of the Normandy coast. The British subsequently landed on Gold Beach, ...

FILE: U.S. Army soldiers land on Omaha Beach during D-Day invasion, Normandy, France (AP) The shores of Normandy were once invaded by Allied troops, but now face an invasion of wind turbines.

UTAH BEACH, France (AP) — As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it rose again over Normandy beaches where soldiers fought and died exactly 80 years ago Thursday, kicking off intense ...

Earlier in the day a lone military piper played on Gold Beach to mark the moment the first British troops stormed the Normandy coast on D-Day 80 years ago today.