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 ...

The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest military invasion in history, a nearly miraculous feat known as D-Day and a major turning point of World War II. Thursday marks the 80th anniversary ...

Last Updated on September 11, 2025 by Matt Staff On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day, marked a turning point in World War II. Over 150,000 troops landed on ...

Updates will soon come to New Orleans' World War II Museum.

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...

CHARLESTON — One of the last times Pfc. Hubert Smoak wrote home to the family farm in Colleton County, he said he was prepared to fight. Just as importantly, the 28-year-old Army soldier told his ...

The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of Normandy on the 6th June 1944, the Allies fought a bitter 77 day battle ...

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 ...

Sometimes history gets revealed in small, nearly forgotten scraps. The Allied invasion of Normandy took place this week in 1944. On the evening of June 5, the largest armada in history began to churn ...