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 – ...
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 ...
Minutes before the Normandy invasion began, Flying Officer Roy L. Long and Sergeant McLaren took to the skies in their De Havilland Mosquito. Their daring night mission over France destroyed the first ...
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 ...