After the fierce battles in the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, the remaining German Army units in Normandy were in full blown retreat for the relative safety of the eastern bank of the River Seine.

The Maschinengewehr 42, or more commonly, the MG 42 was Germany’s final development of their long-standing “universal machine ...

An audacious Allied plan in 1944 had the potential to swiftly end the war in Europe. German forces got advance warning from ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

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, the German army ...

Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of Nazi Germany ... Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather, you'll want ...

When he was 19 years old, Joseph B. “Ben” Miller landed at Normandy on D-Day in a paraglider. Eighty years later, he visited ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: As entrenched Nazi forces mounted attacks, three U.S. battleships — the USS Texas, the USS Nevada and the USS Arkansas — pounded German coastal defenses ...

Thanks to Normandy's unpredictable weather ... this invasion turned the tide in the war and helped lead to the fall of Nazi Germany. Today this piece of coastline, which includes Sword, Juno ...