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 ...

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 ...

Nearer the time of the invasion the Allies dropped twice as many bombs on the Pas de Calais as they did on Normandy. Even on D-Day itself, Allied planes dropped dummy paratroopers and tin foil to ...

Chris Bensinger’s novel “The Sooner You Forget” follows the story of a young Catholic man who, while serving in the United States Army, ends up in a Nazi labor camp.

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 ...

The invasion began in the ... The costs were staggering: the Normandy campaign resulted in more than 200,000 dead, wounded, ...

It’s a few days before Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and coming up with a reason to send only a few men on a top secret mission behind the German lines allows Murder ...

This is where the Germans could see the English coast and where they expected the Allied invasion to come from. And that is exactly what the Allies wanted. The weaker the defences in Normandy ...

“The barges are reminiscent of the Mulberry Harbours built for the allied invasion of Normandy during World War II,” Sutton observes. “Like those, these have been built extremely quickly and ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, he was among the few remaining survivors of the epic Allied invasion ...

Most of these lost their lives during the D-Day invasion. There's also a memorial ... Companies like Normandy Sightseeing Tours, Bayeux Shuttle and Paris City Vision earn high praise from past ...

"Of the million or so Allied participants in Operation ... D-Day remembrance: World War II veterans return to Normandy on ...