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 ...

June 6, 1944, is a day forever etched in history — the beginning of the end of World War II. It was when about 160,000 Allied troops, the largest seaborne invasion ever, stormed the beaches of ...

Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of the historic D-Day operation. In the midst of World War II on June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in Nazi-occupied France. More than ...

Widely seen as a turning point in World War II, the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day, has long been the subject of viral rumors with varying levels of legitimacy. As the ...

OMAHA BEACH, Normandy - On June 6, 1944, the largest air, land and sea invasion in military history took place on the Normandy coast of France. The Battle of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day and ...

Thousands of American and Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. Now decades later, many are still remembering the sacrifices made that day. Like it is for so many others, Scott Barker ...

President Biden late Monday issued a statement on the 78th anniversary of D-Day, after failing to mention the historic day in any of his earlier remarks. His tweet is timestamped at 8:45 p.m. ET, by ...

Richard Rung not only taught history to his students at Wheaton College. He helped make history as a sailor who landed on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion in World War II. Rung, a Carol Stream ...

Tony Pagano, who deployed to Europe not long after D-Day, is marking the Normandy invasion a little differently this year. Pagano, who retired from service with the rank of staff sergeant, is among a ...