World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

Some of the last surviving veterans of the D-Day invasion made a pilgrimage to the Normandy beaches in northern France this week for the 80th anniversary of the 1944 invasion that helped bring ...

So how would they keep the invasion force supplied once it had landed? One answer was to land supplies and personnel directly onto the Normandy beaches but unpredictable weather might make that ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy ... advance upon the beaches of France in ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day ... of the 80th anniversary of the largest amphibious invasion in military history. Some 4,000 Allied troops ...

World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of ...

Will Eisenhower's plan succeed, or will Rommel's panzers throw the Allied invasion back ... to strike at the German beach fortifications and dense bocage of Normandy. All hopes for the liberation ...

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