Monday marks the 78th anniversary of the historic D-Day operation. In the midst of World War II on June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in Nazi-occupied France. More than ...

The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...

June 6, 1944, is a day forever etched in history — the beginning of the end of World War II. It was when about 160,000 Allied troops, the largest seaborne invasion ever, stormed the beaches of ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The invasion that helped change the course of World War II approaches its 79th anniversary. As veterans and world dignitaries commemorate this, here are some details about what ...

Among the victims were 13 nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor at St. Thérèse’s convent in Lisieux. A French Marine Commando paratrooper guides his red, white and blue parachute canopy past the ...

OMAHA BEACH, Normandy - On June 6, 1944, the largest air, land and sea invasion in military history took place on the Normandy coast of France. The Battle of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day and ...

Thousands of American and Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. Now decades later, many are still remembering the sacrifices made that day. Like it is for so many others, Scott Barker ...

Shay, who grew up on Indian Island, near Old Town, was an Army medic during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. He ...