Visiting the D-Day beaches in Normandy is one of the most powerful and sobering experiences you can have in France. Scattered along the coast are remnants of the largest amphibious invasion in history ...

CLARKSBURG, Md. — Army Corporal Waverly Woodson, who settled in Clarksburg, Maryland after the war, was part of the massive Allied invasion of France that pushed out Nazi Germany and turned the tide ...

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 Overlord – ...

The first time Harold Terens traveled to Normandy, he was 20 years old, a U.S. Army Air Forces corporal, and tasked with bringing freed American prisoners of war to England days after D-Day in 1944 — ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Eighty years ago, 150,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France on D-Day to rescue Europe from the tyranny of Nazi Germany. A local man who was there that day returned to Utah ...

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 ...

Frank Walk was in a hurry. The U.S. Army captain had been ordered to bring top-secret planning documents to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters, which at the time was a 19th-century manor near ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Ceremonies in Chicago and the suburbs commemorated those who gave their lives for freedom 80 years ago on the beaches of Normandy. Wreaths were laid in the city commemorating the ...

(NewsNation) — Just 80 years after Harold Terens landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of the D-Day operation, he made another memory at the site: marrying his fiancée, Jeanne Swerlin.