The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...

June 6, 1944 is often considered the beginning of the end of World War II in Europe. On this day, 156,000 Allied troops successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy in occupied France. At 6:30 on the ...

World War II veteran Jake Larson meets youths during ceremonies at the US cemetery to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings, Friday, June 6, 2025 in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy. (AP ...

CARENTAN, France -- No murderous hails of gunfire this time. No D-Day objective that had to be taken, whatever the cost. This time, 75 years almost to the hour after he parachuted into Nazi-occupied ...

SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France -- Seventy-five years ago, American paratrooper John Steele dangled from a clock tower in Sainte-Mere-Eglise after his parachute got caught during the D-Day invasion, and ...

Last Updated on September 11, 2025 by Matt Staff On the morning of June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as ...

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...

Bernard Jordan, 89, hops on bus, ferry to cross the English Channel again. British D-Day veteran Bernard Jordan, 89, sneaked out of a nursing home on England's south coast on Thursday and turned up in ...

A 90-year-old World War II veteran is topping the U.K. singles chart with a veterans tribute song. Jim Radford was just 15 years old during when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy.