Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of 1943 through August 1944, this region became the most important location in the world. Blending multiple cinematographic techniques, D-Day: ...

Pope Leo XIV's father, Louis Marius Prevost, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Prevost Snr. was born on July 28, ...

This 80-year-old archival footage shows Operation Neptune—the code name for the landings on the beaches at Normandy.

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 ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...

Mr Keir, who was part of a crew ferrying US troops onto Utah Beach in Normandy during the D-Day invasion in June 1944, is among more than 30 Second World War veterans attending celebrations in ...

The Normandy town was at the heart of D-Day drop zones in 1944, when paratroopers jumped in darkness into gunfire, many scattering far from their objectives. Sunday’s jumpers were from an ...

Day of Days June 6 1944 commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing by bringing together American DDay veterans to share their experiences from that fateful day As they vividly ...