Eighty years ago Thursday, the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set the standard for coalition warfare. The lessons ...

Friends of the Worcester County Veterans Memorial are raising funds for a memorial paver to honor George Kerchner, a decorated World War II hero. Kerchner, a lieutenant in the 2nd Ranger Battalion, ...

The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — 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 ...

Crucial weather forecasts helped allied forces invade on D-Day. Storm forecasts changed history. Today's forecasts still benefit from the science developed during WW2. On June 6, 1944, the Allied ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 6, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. I have always wondered about Utah Beach. On June 6, ...

From “Saving Private Ryan” to “Life is Beautiful”, these WW2 films are pure masterpieces. Friday, June 6 marks the 81st anniversary of D-Day, the massive Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944 that ...

The quiet shores of Lake Erie will once again echo with the sounds of history as thousands gather for D-Day Conneaut 2025, the nation’s largest World War II living history reenactment. From Aug. 14–16 ...