Today marks the anniversary of one of the most significant military operations in modern history: the D-Day Normandy landings of June 6, 1944. This pivotal event marked the beginning of the Allied ...

The epic battle draws an estimated 5 million visitors to Normandy each year ... World War II memorabilia and stick a pin in one of the maps on the wall that track his visitors from around the ...

The Normandy beaches became a battleground in the struggle to free France and Europe at large from the hold of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion, which included land, sea and air forces ...

Veterans have gathered on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment during World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime ...

Medeiros is now a little more than 80 years removed from landing in Normandy on D-Day ... ferocious push along the Western Front during the Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16, 1944-Jan. 25, 1945).

The operation was broken into a naval phase called "Neptune," which had troops traveling across the Channel to France, and "Overlord," which was the plan for the invasion and Battle of Normandy ...

Women sit among the ruins of Magny-en-Bessin (Calvados), Normandy, in October 1944, after the Battle of Normandy. AFP Eighty years ago, at the end of June 1944, the Battle of Normandy was at its ...