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 ...

CHICAGO -- Vietnam veteran Jerome Weatherspoon has a special hobby. Weatherspoon, a 67-year-old retiree, reconstructed the battle scene of the Invasion of Normandy, complete with replica war planes ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

WIESBADEN, Germany — Over 80 years ago, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in a bold assault that changed the course of history and set the standard for coalition warfare. The lessons ...

Today marks 81 years since the the D-Day landings began on the Normandy beaches of France during World War Two. June 6, 1944, was an important turning point during World War Two and is one of the ...

Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler's regime.Along the ...