"The plan had called for the air and naval bombardments ... less than a year after the D-Day invasion, Germany surrendered.

The D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 ... often deviating from the original plan to exploit weaknesses in German defenses. Red team thinking emphasizes the necessity of anticipating a wide range ...

The Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day was one of ... His penciled battle plan for D-Day took up no more than one piece of paper and included a note that read: "The key note of everything ...

The invasion of northern France was the first stage in a long campaign to defeat Nazi Germany. The Allied commanders had to get every detail of the D-Day plan to work. German defences along the ...

It was a story that took months of planning and coordination across a half-dozen countries and two continents: the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that marked the ... months in advance to come ...

“The D-Day invasion … had involved so many men ... “For Eisenhower, there was no Plan B,” Citino said. Even failure at Omaha Beach alone would likely have derailed the Allied efforts ...

China's construction of barges that appear tailor made for amphibious landings has raised concerns over the prospect of an invasion of Taiwan ... made before the "D-Day" landings in June 1944.

After months of careful reconnaissance a plan for the D Day invasion could finally begin to take shape. Five beaches would be attacked by 145,000 men, British and Canadian forces would seize three ...

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 ...

The modern-day aerial footage is accompanied by interviews with World War II veterans, mixed with archival footage of the June 6, 1944 “D-Day” invasion, along with newly created maps and photo ...

Julius Shoulars is 94 and resides in a cozy second-floor apartment in a Virginia Beach retirement community. During an oral-history interview, he recounted his service in the US Navy as a coxswain ...

Steven Melnikoff, 104, and Donald Cobb, 99, are veterans of the DDAY invasion, and they're returning to France for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied attack on the ...