Allied paratroopers from the 101st Airborne dropped into chaos behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. Among them was one ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Today we pause to remember the heroes of D-Day. They were mostly kids, 18, 19, 20 years old. Young Americans far from home getting tossed around in landing crafts on the ...

The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany unconditionally surrendered during World War II. A sign outside Trinity Church, New York City, inviting worshipers to ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day. Answering through his executive assistant, Eisenhower replied that ...

2024 11:11 a.m. Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. On June 6, 1944, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy during “Operation Overlord” to try and take away Nazi control of ...

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a hole in Adolf ...

On June 6, 1944, thousands of Allied servicemen landed ... To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing, four D-Day veterans gather at the famed Museum of World War II outside ...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied ... from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

You just went and did it.” Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Today, Goss is one of an estimated 100 to 150 World War II veterans ...