World War II veteran John “Harry” Kellers beamed from his folding chair Sunday morning, underneath a shade tent in the ...

Step into history like never before. This POV footage puts you right in the boots of a WWII soldier during America’s largest ...

Not only did Proffitt get himself to safety, he managed to get all of the 30 men in his landing craft up the beach, through volley after volley of machine gun and artillery fire, alive.

In a recent op-ed in the Carroll County Times, “Trump got his WWII history wrong,” Doug Mallouk stated: “Regarding the 80th ...

Every window was a machine gun; ... 1944, Canadian soldiers spilled out of landing crafts and met their fates. ... A Royal Canadian Navy landing craft heads toward Juno Beach on D-Day.

Men going ashore, particularly at Omaha Beach, but on the other invasion beaches as well, faced a withering storm of lead from German machine gun emplacements as the ramps of their landing craft ...

As the troops were offloading, machine gun and sniper fire was sweeping the beach. Mortar and artillery fire zeroed in on the troops departing the landing crafts before they reached the beach.

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...

Coast Guardsmen manned 99 warships and large landing vessels for Operation Neptune, the naval component of D-Day involving more than 6,900 ships and landing craft, including about 1,500 Higgins ...

Stacker compiled a list of 50 facts and figures that defined the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944. Sources include the D-Day ...

LCVPs from the USS Samuel Chase approach Omaha Beach under fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944. (U.S. Coast Guard) The Higgins Boats. At Normandy, Trump would crew an LCI (or "Landing Craft, Infantry"), a ...

The soldiers landing on French soil were ferried aboard 4,126 landing craft and a mostly British fleet of 6,939 ships. The Allies also ruled the skies, thanks to an inventory of 11,590 aircraft.