American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...

The 101st Airborne Division parachuted into Normandy on D-Day near the town of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, quickly moving to ...

Lt. Col. Gerhard L. Bolland was a proud Norwegian American from the farming town of Madison, Minnesota. He started his military career in 1926 in the Minnesota National Guard and was eventually ...

Operation Overlord was launched over 76 years ago on June 6, 1944. Commonly known as D-Day – a military term for the first day of a combat operation – it was the largest seaborne invasion in history ...

One of the more critical military campaigns during this time was Operation Charnwood, a military campaign I learned about while visiting the Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy. It began with a ...

Linda Braden Albert Correspondent for The Daily Times Jul 7, 2024 Jul 7, 2024 Retired history teacher Julie Mitchell and Jessie Henderson, winner of the Albert H. Small Normandy Institute History Day ...

D-Day veterans have criticised French tourism officials after they unveiled a new promotional campaign about the Normandy landings which ignores one of the beaches where British troops went ashore.