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 ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Jun 5, 2020 Jun 5, 2020 0 On June 6, 1944, Allies staged the opening invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy ...

The oldest living World War II veteran in Minnesota and survivor of the Normandy Beach invasion in 1944, passed away on Nov. 20 at the age of 105.

Day, Juan Pujol (now Agent Garbo) executed the most critical deception of World War II, convincing Hitler personally that Normandy was merely a diversion for the real invasion at Pas-de-Calais.

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 ...

A 90-year-old World War II veteran is topping the U.K. singles chart with a veterans tribute song. Jim Radford was just 15 years old during when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy.

(CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...