In August 1944, during the final stages of the Normandy campaign in World War II, a single American battalion was ordered to ...

American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...

Sixty-three years ago this week, we landed on the Normandy beaches. As on each anniversary of June 6, 1944, much has been written to commemorate the bravery and competence of the victorious ...

June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of “D-Day,” the Allied landings on the Normandy coast of France. We tend to make a great deal of decennial anniversaries, and this one, in particular, deserves ...

Operation Overlord was launched over 76 years ago on June 6, 1944. Commonly known as D-Day – a military term for the first day of a combat operation – it was the largest seaborne invasion in history ...

Dive into the brutal battles of Normandy as we explore the fierce clashes between Allied forces and Germany’s 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. This documentary covers the intense combat these ...

They rebuilt railroads and repaired bridges, moved supplies and serviced the tanks and airplanes vital to the ultimate assaults on Germany. And together Saturday, a small group of World War II ...

As an 18- to 19-year-old, who landed in Normandy a day or so after D-Day, I subsequently wrote some verses giving my impressions of that campaign. I should like to share a few of them with you. There, ...

Many years ago, a friend and I visited the five beaches on France’s Normandy coast where allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, to launch the combined offensive against the Nazis in Europe. Before dawn ...

One of the more critical military campaigns during this time was Operation Charnwood, a military campaign I learned about while visiting the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy. It began with a ...