Day. Allied troops invaded Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, to fight Nazi Germany in World War II. Facts The largest amphibious (land and water) invasion in history. The code name for the invasion ...

Five soldiers from Philadelphia will be recognized as part of the 81st D-Day anniversary, marking their service with the 1st ...

Leonard Charles Groeger was among three from Northampton County who died on Omaha Beach fighting for the 1st Infantry ...

Shuttered military museum plans to move collection to NC after not finding another home. It hopes to leave legacy of Citadel ...

It was on June 1, 1944 that a regiment of 7,500 men from the 29th US Infantry Division, accompanied by tanks, guns and ...

When American military planners began searching for islands they could use to attack Japan from, they identified the Marianas ...

Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set ...

Now age is accomplishing what the Germans could not, claiming the lives of the warriors who survived World War II. Just 1.2 million ... nearly a year after the D-Day landing, but for many ...

Peter Wellman made a final visit last year to see the abandoned coastal village, where he was born and brought up. Tyneham in ...

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II and was a junior lieutenant ... He was in charge of a landing craft that “the Allies used ...

Article continues below Still a child on D-Day in 1944, Ron then found himself off the coast ... They were in punts, pulling the dead onto the landing craft, pulling bits of legs on. “We had to give a ...

Anyone who kept a diary risked being be jailed. But now, at the age of 99½, ex-Royal Marine Tom Hill has finally decided to reveal his secret ...