The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.

"We'll start the war from right here!" Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. purportedly declared as his Higgins landing craft drifted about a mile from its target destination on Utah Beach the ...

A missing fragment of the Bayeux Tapestry was discovered in the state archives of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost ...

About a month before the Allied invasion of a 50-mile stretch of beaches in Normandy, France, Leonard Zerlin, then a 20-year-old B-26 turret gunner in the U.S. Army Air Corps, had a sense ...

Some 4,000 Allied troops were killed in the invasion. Goss knows he was one of the lucky ones to make it back home. He traveled to Normandy with his daughter and nephew. Separately, many other ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

In late 1944, during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter ...

was hand-picked by General Dwight Eisenhower to command the 1st U.S. Army during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. Under Bradley's direction, American forces liberated Paris, turned back an ...

An engineering feat, the harbors were used to unload troops, vehicles and supplies during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. While not much is left of the floating harbors, you can ...

As he waited in his command trailer for word regarding the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, Eisenhower said to his personal assistant, Kay Summersby, "I hope I know what I'm doing.