On this day, Operation Overlord began as Allied forces lined up against the Axis powers and began an invasion of Normandy, France. When the Allies needed to pick an appropriate landing site ...

Operation Overlord — the Allied invasion of Western Europe — proved ... heading eastward through France. Hitler’s once-formidable Third Reich seemed on the verge of collapse.

OMAHA BEACH, France - The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France ... about how the operation unfolded. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy ... the English Channel to fight the Germans on the beaches of France. "Some soldiers departed a couple of days earlier than others ...

Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...

from Atlanta to mark the anniversary of the historic Allied invasion. It marks the third consecutive time Delta has brought American veterans to France for D-Day celebrations. At the same time ...

Steve Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the Hollywood heavyweights behind movies and television shows about World War II, traveled to ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter ...

In France, Rommel sought to fortify Nazi territory and prevent an Allied invasion. He was not successful. On June 6, 1944, while Rommel was in Germany celebrating his wife's birthday, the Allies ...

The French government is preparing to present Alan Kinder, a 100-year-old World War II veteran, with the Legion of Honor, the European country’s highest decoration.