The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas, June 25, 2024 – A prior trip to Normandy France for the 75th anniversary of D-Day inspired a Brooke Army Medical Center interventional radiologist to ...

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH) — Senator Richard Blumenthal was in Middletown on Monday meeting Connecticut veterans to discuss his recent visit to Normandy, France to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, ...

The sky was cloudy and overcast over suburban New York on the morning of June 6th, 2024. On any other day, it would've just been another typical dreary, slightly wet Thursday afternoon. One full of ...

Artifacts from a vessel on display at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum recently journeyed abroad to be part of D-Day anniversary ceremony in Normandy, including a stop at an airport security ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...

Sixteen days of events in Normandy are now over marking D-Day in France, remembering the many heroes who lost their lives there but also celebrating their independence. 10 News brought you many of the ...

Anniversaries have a way of making us reflect on the lessons of the past. On June 6, the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the largest amphibious invasion in history. On that day in 1944 — ...

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...