Shortly after midnight on June 6, 1944, the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and tanks in history was launched.

but the highest-ranking American figure to storm the beaches during the invasion of Normandy. And he did so armed only with a cane and a pistol. A veteran of the First World War, Roosevelt was ...

World War II veteran Dick Schermerhorn, who cleared mines on a Normandy beach during the D-Day assault, died Tuesday. At 102, ...

At just 17 years old, Joseph Coy left Pittsfield High School to enlist in the Navy, serving on Utah Beach on D-Day and later ...

Foreign nationals storming the beaches of San Diego like it's Normandy. Look at this, boatloads of strange men breaching our beaches and just disappearing into the streets. Not a single other ...

On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy and begun their assault on Hitler’s ‘Fortress Europe’. The successful invasion opened up a second front in Western Europe and in doing so ...

80 years ago, more than 150,000 allied service members stormed the beaches of Normandy, trying to change the course of WW II. “As Commander in Chief, it’s the highest honor to be able to ...

Morrissette’s unit stormed ashore near Oran ... he took comfort seeing the massive armada assembled to storm the beaches of Normandy. “Who could harm us with this firepower behind us?” ...

Storm Herminia caused road closures in some areas of France. About 400 people were evacuated from homes in and around the ...