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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy ... advance upon the beaches of France in ...

Goss was among the first Americans to arrive on the beaches of ... 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 ...

Meanwhile, covert Royal Navy teams in mini submarines had surveyed the beaches ... time of the invasion the Allies dropped twice as many bombs on the Pas de Calais as they did on Normandy.

Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges needed to surge troops and tanks over a beach ... for the allied invasion of Normandy during ...

Eighty years since the D-Day invasion of Normandy ... three current Navy sailors relayed the stories of three veterans who stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Somewhere around 9,000 soldiers are buried in this Colleville-sur-Mer war cemetery, which overlooks Omaha Beach. Most of these lost their lives during the D-Day invasion. There's also a memorial ...

Mr Roberts, who was in the Royal Navy from 1938 to 1978 and reached ... Appledram airport for a patrol flight over the invasion beaches in Normandy. His mother, father and younger brother were ...

Although there were heavy Allied casualties, this invasion turned the ... For more information about the beaches and D-Day memorials and museums, visit the Normandy Tourism website.