In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, Americans received word that three years of concerted war efforts had finally culminated in D-day — military jargon for the undisclosed time of a planned ...

NORMANDY, France — The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. As veterans and world dignitaries commemorate the 79th anniversary of the ...

The largest naval, air and land operation in history occurred 75 years ago. D-Day, as it is simply known today, was just one part of the larger Operation Overlord, the codename for the Battle of ...

Starting in August of 1942 American bombers began hitting German occupied France, Belgium, Norway and Holland. By 1943 Germany proper was being bombed. North Africa and Sicily were in Allied hands by ...