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, ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

whose success was seen as critical to the entire D-Day plan. He and copilot Peter Boyle reached the target using only “a clipboard, and a stopwatch and a little torch on his finger”.

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

The Princess Royal hailed the “unwavering determination” of the allied forces as hundreds of parachutists jumped over Normandy on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

All that was left were messages of thanks chalked on to the pavements and walls by soldiers. D-Day had begun. The Russians were making headway in the east. In the south, British and American ...

World War II veterans from the United States, Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler's defeat.

This was called D-Day, and it was the beginning of the fall of the Axis powers in Europe. Lam’s diary contains his point of view on the role of Chinese soldiers in the D-Day landings.

June 6: D-Day. Over 160,000 Allied troops and 30,000 vehicles are landed along a 50-mile stretch of fortified French coastline and begin fighting on the beaches of Normandy. July: The Allies take ...

On the airborne troops landed behind enemy lines on D-Day ... Shortly after midnight the British 6th and American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions began landing. On the eastern flank, British ...

One week after the Allied victory on D-Day, de Gaulle returned to French soil, and triumphantly accompanied Allied troops as they liberated Paris on August 25, 1944. Perhaps the most notorious ...

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy ...