The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest military invasion in history, a nearly miraculous feat known as D-Day and a major turning point of World War II. Thursday marks the 80th anniversary ...

Eighty years ago Thursday, 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 ...

Seventy years after D-Day, previously unseen combat footage filmed under the supervision of John Ford was rediscovered in the U.S. National Archives. The 33-minute film captures the raw chaos of the ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...

We leave these things at the moment, of course we were there. I was there. And we saw the sky filled with this. Me falling. Yes, the people of Normandy remember it well. This is only *** reenactment ...

University of Guam assistant professor and U.S. Army veteran Mary Kate Soliva is making history as a Guam daughter selected to participate in a historic all-women parachute jump into Normandy, ...

Kathleen Teagarden celebrates her 99th birthday in Normandy with homemade French whipped cream. On the day Kathleen Varner Teagarden of Waynesburg turned 19 – June 6, 1944 – her husband parachuted ...