U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day. Answering through ... the Allies' ships and landing craft for their journey ...

In less than 24 hours, more than 5,000 ships crossed the English Channel, along with thousands of tanks and landing craft and ... their harrowing stories, "D-Day's Sunken Secrets" unfolds a ...

U.S. Army troops crowd into a navy landing craft infantry ship during the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. read more US Navy/Getty Images / Getty Images ...

"He's a D-Day veteran and he was a Royal Marine on a landing craft operating the big guns to protect the troops that were landing. The whole family is very proud of him." Robert Bellfield ...

In 1945, an attempt was made to identify the unknown remains, but the effort was unsuccessful, the DPAA said. Analysts with ...

Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.