It involved the simultaneous landing of tens of thousands of troops on five separate beaches in Normandy. More than a year in the planning, D-Day was originally set to start on 5 June, judged to ...

French officials have ‘relaunched’ a bid to have the D-Day landing beaches protected by UNESCO World Heritage listing.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHAM) – On Veterans Day, the men and women who have fought for the country are honored, including a 103-year ...

NORMANDY — As a student of military history, especially World War II, I had longed to perhaps someday visit Normandy, the ...

Leonard T. Schroeder Jr. holds a unique place in history as the first Allied soldier to set foot on Normandy during D-Day.

San Jose held its 105th Veterans Day Parade on Monday, despite a downpour. Riding in a red Mercedes was 100-year-old former ...

The Normandy massacres, as they are known to history, ranged in scale from spontaneous murders of individual POWs, to ...

Thanks to its proximity to Paris, Normandy makes for an ... Situated about 6 miles from the D-Day beaches, Bayeux was the first city liberated after the D-Day landing. It's also the closest ...

On the run-in to Juno Beach they were fired on by German ... Sheppard in June this year attending a memorial service at the Normandy D-Day Landings Memorial at Rettendon, Essex His unit was ...