Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

The largest amphibious invasion in history was launched on June 6, 1944, when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. For this year’s 81st ...

Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, was one of the bloodiest and most fiercely contested landings of the Normandy invasion. U.S. forces faced heavily fortified German defenses, rough seas, and deadly ...

World War II veteran Wilbur "Jack" Myers, a 101-year-old who fought in the U.S. Army's 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, hands a souvenir postcard of himself to Ryan, a young French boy, on Monday, June ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...

Pfc. Nicholas Hartman, killed on Omaha Beach in 1944, was identified through DNA analysis and honored with a hero's burial at ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The D-Day generation, smaller in number than ever, is back on the beaches of France where so much blood was spilled 81 years ago. World War II veterans, now mostly centenarians, ...