World War II's successful Operation Overlord took place on the coast of France. Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of ...

Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and tanks in history was launched.

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

So the invasion planners decided to build their ... Mulberry A was constructed for the Americans off Normandy’s Omaha Beach to supply U.S. forces, the Institution of Civil Engineers says on ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day ... of the 80th anniversary of the largest amphibious invasion in military history. Some 4,000 Allied troops ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

On June 6, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion in history began as ... in a park overlooking Omaha Beach, the people of Normandy dedicated the Charles Shay Memorial. The first French monument ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy ... advance upon the beaches of France in ...

So how would they keep the invasion force supplied once it had landed? One answer was to land supplies and personnel directly onto the Normandy beaches but unpredictable weather might make that ...