Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The ...

Tolley Fletcher, at the time a 19-year-old Navy gunner's mate, remembers the rough seas and the treacherous landing troops ...

Veterans are gathering on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment ...

"If we forget what the country and all those people were able to do, then we kind of are forgetting how great the country ...

More than 2 million Allied soldiers, sailors, pilots, medics and other people from a dozen countries were involved in the ...

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France ... In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 wounded. The battle — and especially Allied bombings ...

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France ... were killed on D-Day itself.In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 wounded.

IMAGE: British troops come ashore at Jig Green sector, Gold Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944. The Allied forces had spent a year planning the invasion. Delaying the attack would ruin the operation ...

Planning began more than a year in advance, and the Allies carried out substantial military deception to confuse the Germans ...