This United States War Department film reveals the intense behind-the-scenes planning that led up to the historic invasion of ...

Last Updated on September 11, 2025 by Matt Staff On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as ...

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...

When Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy Operation Fortitude ensured that German forces remained fixated on a phantom invasion at Calais This episode shows how the deception continued long a ...

D-Day veterans discuss the challenges they faced at the invasion of Normandy. NORMANDY, France, June 5, 2009 — -- You can learn the most interesting things riding on a train. The train I'd chosen ...

CHICAGO -- Vietnam veteran Jerome Weatherspoon has a special hobby. Weatherspoon, a 67-year-old retiree, reconstructed the battle scene of the Invasion of Normandy, complete with replica war planes ...

June 6, 1944 is often considered the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. On this day, 156,000 Allied troops successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy in occupied France. At 6:30 on the ...

SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France -- Seventy-five years ago, American paratrooper John Steele dangled from a clock tower in Sainte-Mere-Eglise after his parachute got caught during the D-Day invasion, and ...

RICHMOND, Texas -- It's not often you get to meet someone who is 100 years old. Lucian Baskin has lived for a century. He has lived through 18 presidents, the civil rights movement, and the dawn of ...

June 6, 1944 is often considered the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. On this day, 156,000 Allied troops successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy in occupied France. At 6:30 on the ...