Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

On the 81st anniversary of the unprecedented D-Day invasion at Normandy, the memory of one Navy veteran lives on after his son was named the first American Pope in history.

Witness the heroic story of the C-47 Skytrain, the workhorse that delivered 18,000 paratroopers behind enemy lines on D-Day.

It was early June 1944, and with Operation Overlord underway, every Allied resource was mobilized for the largest amphibious ...

Eighty-one years ago, the Normandy beaches witnessed a pivotal moment in World War II. D-Day marked the start of Operation Overlord. Allied forces from the US, UK, and Canada landed on five Normandy ...

On June 6, 1944 − D-Day − World War II's invasion of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, got underway. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, told the men ...

BEDFORD, Va. (WSET) — June 6, 2025 is the 81st anniversary of the day Allied forces invaded Nazi-occupied France to breach Hitler's defenses in western Europe, known as Operation Overlord. D-Day ...

On June 6, 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for the largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of northern ...

The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – saw of tens of thousands of troops from countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada landing on five stretches of the ...

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.

Though World War II lasted nearly another year in Europe, the success of Operation Overlord led to the liberation of France and allowed the Allies to fight the Germans in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Though World War II lasted nearly another year in Europe, the success of Operation Overlord led to the liberation of France and allowed the Allies to fight the Germans in Nazi-occupied Europe.