This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, also known as D-Day. The operation is known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, involving 150,000 land, air and sea ...
Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...
As Veterans Day nears, we're reminded that history doesn't just live in museums or textbooks. It's also in the stories of those who were there.
OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...
Dave Hamilton returned to Normandy, France, 75 years after D-Day. NORMANDY, France -- Joe Enzminger craned his neck to the sky over Normandy, France, on Wednesday, waiting to see one of the 14 World ...
Now 101, Shay is one of a dwindling number of living D-Day vets. Over the years, he has been a fixture at annual remembrance ceremonies commemorating the June 6, 1944, Allied assault on the beaches of ...
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf ...