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 ...

Jimmy "James" Justice, one of the last surviving lionhearts of the Normandy invasion, died days before his 100th birthday.

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 ...

(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 ...

Richard Rung not only taught history to his students at Wheaton College. He helped make history as a sailor who landed on Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion in World War II. Rung, a Carol Stream ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest military invasion in history, a nearly miraculous feat known as D-Day and a major turning point of World War II. Thursday marks the 80th anniversary ...

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 ...