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OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — Veterans were gathering Friday on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the ...

AIKEN — Veterans of history's greatest amphibious invasion are few and far between, but Aiken County still includes several people with vivid childhood or teen memories of June 6, 1944. D-Day had ...

(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 ...

He was there at the start of D-Day, the biggest military invasion of all time. And he was there at the start of the invasion of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II.

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 ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — The USS LST 393 Veterans Museum in Muskegon is paying tribute to the lives lost in the D-Day Invasion. The museum hopes to help visitors better appreciate the scale of the ...

NORMANDY, France — Virginia National Guard Soldiers stood in silent formation Friday morning as the sun broke over Omaha Beach, paying tribute to the heroes who stormed these sands 81 years ago.

"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called ...