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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these lost their lives during the D-Day invasion. There's also a memorial ...

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 ...