The D-Day memorial installation, created by charity Standing with Giants, has previously been displayed at the British ...

Perfect for those interested in World War II, German armored divisions, and the role of Waffen SS in Normandy 1944.

When Benjamin Patterson stood at the grave of a 23-year-old World War II combat engineer from North Lawrence, he didn’t just ...

Carentan was a key strategic objective in the Normandy campaign, and the men of the 101st Airborne fought some of the most intense battles of D-Day+6 to capture it. The Band of Brothers miniseries ...

By the end of the Normandy Campaign, at least 73,000 allied troops had been killed and 153,000 were wounded. About 20,000 civilians lost their lives, while between 4,000 and 9,000 German soldiers ...

He landed on June 16, 10 days after the Normandy campaign began on D-Day, with the 45th Evacuation Hospital. "Today I plan on, and I know we are going to Omaha Beach, maybe walk on the sand, up ...

U.S. soldiers stand on the remains of a house as they inspect damage in Carentan, in the Normandy region of France, June 15, 1944. The 80th anniversary this week of D-Day is a mixed bag of ...

The costs were staggering: the Normandy campaign resulted in more than 200,000 dead, wounded, and missing on the Allied side, and 320,000 on the German. But the operation had been a historic ...

But he expects to stroll that beach, where he has regaled thousands with his recollections of D-Day and the Normandy campaign and helped explain why they mattered.

To put it in context, this was more than the German losses in the entire Normandy campaign (240,000 casualties, 210,000 captured, 1,500 tanks and 20,000 vehicles destroyed).

June 6, 2025, is the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion that definitively turned the tide of World War II and eventually led to the fall of the Nazis and their allies.