On this day, Operation Overlord began as Allied forces lined up against the Axis powers and began an invasion of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 ships and 150,000 troops began landing on the ...

The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented, using the largest-ever armada to punch a hole in Adolf Hitler’s defenses and change the course of World War II.

Many deaths on all sides. A total of 4,414 Allied troops were killed on D-day itself, including 2,501 Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded. In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied ...

Who took part. 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 and Canada.

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...

From the Allied beachhead, TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker cabled a coolly realistic account of Normandy and the Normans: Along the roads of the Manche and Calvados, beside the ...

The 81st anniversary of the famous U.S.-led D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, was recently commemorated. Less well-known are the battles during the days and weeks that followed in Normandy ...

Widely seen as a turning point in World War II, the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day, has long been the subject of viral rumors with varying levels of legitimacy.As ...

A total of 4,414 Allied troops were killed on D-Day itself, including 2,501 Americans. More than 5,000 were wounded. In the ensuing Battle of Normandy, 73,000 Allied forces were killed and 153,000 ...

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — The June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.. The invasion – codenamed Operation ...