I don’t remember what happened yesterday, but I remember what happened 80 years ago.” The memories have “always been vivid ...

Codename Operation Neptune, Tuesday, June 6, 1944, commenced the largest known seaborne invasion in world history that took ...

Find out how the Invasion of Normandy in 1944 came to be known as D-Day, and what the "D" stands for.

This SW FL man has vivid memories of the U.S. soldiers who came to his English village, then suddenly left town for the ...

A new World War 2 movie about D-Day is being hailed as "absolutely excellent" ahead of its UK cinematic release.

Share on X Are there still stories of World War II in your family ? Of course there are. If you know which great-great aunt ...

D-Day depended on more than soldiers, ships, and aircraft. It also depended on James Stagg, Allied meteorologists, and secret ...

The late historian Stephen Ambrose wrote biographies of Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, as well as many books about World War II. For histories of the war in Europe, Ambrose ...

John Wayne's 1962 epic war movie The Longest Day defined onscreen depictions of D-Day, even influencing Saving Private Ryan.

Richard Rung was a 19-year-old sailor on a Navy vessel approaching the shores of Omaha Beach in Nazi-occupied France just after dawn on June 6, 1944. Rung was one of 160,000 Allied troops landing in ...

Eighty-one years ago Friday, more than 160,000 Allied troops stormed the multitude of drop zones along the beaches of Normandy, France. It was D-Day, perhaps the most significant turning point of ...

Charles Shay, a D-Day veteran who now calls Normandy home, was recognized by Army leadership during a recent bedside ceremony not far from the beach he stormed over 80 years ago. Shay, who served as a ...