4th June 1944 bound for the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy). Most of them fought across the German beachfront defenses, supported by nearly 7,000 naval vessels and 11,000 Allied aircraft.

France's Ministry of Culture on Monday filed an application to have the beaches in Normandy that were the site of the D-Day ...

The invasion of Normandy wasn't accomplished strictly through American forces. Meet the 3rd Canadian infantry division that stormed Juno Beach. Their mission was to cut the Caen-Bayeux road, seize the ...

As time passes fewer from the Greatest Generation are around to share their stories. Among veterans, Wayzata resident Philip Harder, 88, belongs to an even more select group – those who were ...

Julius Shoulars is 94 and resides in a cozy second-floor apartment in a Virginia Beach retirement community. During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain ...

DAN SNOW: 7 miles off the coast of Normandy France, 6,000 ships wait for the signal, 145,000 troops prepare to storm five beaches. Four years after a humiliating retreat at Dunkirk the allies are ...

This Thursday, June 6, the Falkland Islands will also be joining the D-Day 80th Anniversary of the beach landings in Normandy with the lighting of a beacon at 5:15 PM, under the motto of ...

A battle-scarred American flag believed to be the first planted on Omaha beach during the 1944 D-Day landings is expected to fetch more than $55,000 at auction next week, Updated on Dec 10 ...

Mr Churm, from Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, was a medic on landing craft on D-Day, moving tanks from Newhaven in Sussex to Sword Beach, one of the five landing areas for the Allied ...

Dan Snow examines how the Allied Forces planned and executed the D-Day landings, as surviving veterans ... the first wave of Americans in to Omaha beach, known as the suicide wave due to the ...

Plans are under way to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day in a town where thousands ... troops took part in a dress rehearsal for the beach landings. Several tanks sank when they were ...