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 June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France ... Nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944. Of those, 73,000 were from the United States and 83,000 from Britain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Masters of the Air Episode 8 builds a box around the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. You know, D-Day, when Masters exec producer Tom Hanks, as Captain John Miller, stormed Omaha Beach in ...

The Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day was one of the most complex military operations ever undertaken, but amid the intense preparation and planning for history's largest combined land ...

As he waited in his command trailer for word regarding the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, Eisenhower said to his personal assistant, Kay Summersby, "I hope I know what I'm doing.

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 ...

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

As a United Press correspondent, Cronkite covered the landings in North Africa and Sicily, the Allied invasion of Normandy and the subsequent battles across France and Germany. He was also a ...

The creator of the project Tansy Forster was born in Magherafelt and now lives in Normandy, France. "It started off as a ...

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