Eighty-one years after William Owens helped stop Nazi forces in Normandy, the Army posthumously awarded him the Distinguished ...

Discover the real reasons behind Germany’s failure at Normandy, beyond the common myths of surprise and sheer Allied numbers.

Sometimes, a flight means more than merely transporting a person from one city to another. “Why We Dream,” a feature documentary that screens today at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicles the moving ...

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of ...

On June 6, 1944 − D-Day − World War II's invasion of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, got underway. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, told the men ...

The turning point of WW2 in the ETO was the decisive battle in Normandy. Following Operation Overlord and the invasion of ...

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 more ...

Richard Stewart was awarded the French Legion of Honour by France's president during D-Day ceremonies in 2024.

Neil Smoak has spent his life studying his family, including three Smoak men from Colleton County who died June 9, 1944, during the Normandy invasion.

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The gathering at the Normandy American Cemetery honored the more than 150,000 Allied troops who stormed the beaches and skies of France on June 6, 1944, launching the largest amphibious invasion ...