June 6, 1944. The seminal event of the “Good War,” fought by the “Greatest Generation.” The beginning of what General Dwight Eisenhower called the “Great Crusade” to defeat the Nazi Reich, free the ...

The events of Operation Overlord inspired the Swedish power metal battalion’s 2005 fan-favourite single, Primo Victoria ...

Southwick Park was the base for General Dwight D Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, and the Supreme Headquarters Allied ...

It was early June 1944, and the Allied forces were deep in preparations for Operation Overlord. From the highest command ...

Eighty years ago this month, British and American military leaders were making final preparations for what was to become the largest seaborn operation in history: Operation Overlord, popularly known ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...

Motor Machinist's Mate First Class William F. Trump was a Coast Guardsman and steeled veteran of amphibious landings long before departing for Normandy. He landed troops at Sicily in 1943 and Salerno ...

While the United States did not want to open another front in Italy, the British hoped for a rapid advance, and the Allies ...

As I write this week’s column, it is June 6th and the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. On June 6th, 1944, Allied troops landed on five French beachheads that had the code-names Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword, and ...

‘I don’t like it, but we have to go.” With these words eighty years ago, Supreme Allies Commander, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, issued the order to initiate Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy in ...