VIKING NEBULA shows what happens when military operation planners try to come up with a good mission name, unlike Odyssey ...

Montgomery sat alongside Churchill and Eisenhower in this car as they plotted the liberation of Europe. Read about its ...

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy in World War II played an instrumental role in the creation ...

Winston Churchill said that Operation Overlord was 'undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult' ever undertaken. With nearly three million troops involved, it was an incredible feat of ...

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 ...

May 30: The Allied invasion of France commences; troops based in England begin their mobilization to cross the Channel, in a massive effort code-named Operation Overlord. Eisenhower will wait for ...

After much of Europe had been occupied by the Axis powers for four years, the Allies finally launched their campaign to liberate Western Europe, codenamed Operation Overlord, on 6 June 1944.

The circular plaque, on the wall of Customs House, acknowledges the town's contribution during Operation Overlord in 1944. It replaces a commemorative stone, originally unveiled for the 40th ...