A U.S. flag lies as a marker on a destroyed bunker two days after the strategic site overlooking D-Day beaches was captured ...

Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Veterans have gathered on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment ...

World War II veteran Wally King speaks at the D-Day ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France, ...

Slapton Sands is the British beach that was used to simulate Normandy, where everything went wrong during ‘Exercise Tiger’ ...

Historic photos illustrate the D-Day landings, which happened 81 years ago Friday. A reenactment in Conneaut, Ohio, happens ...

The liberation of Gathemo, France, won’t be found in many history books about the Second World War. After all, it was one ...

Most sources, however, indicate that there were approximately 2,400 casualties (killed, wounded or missing), leaving approximately 31,600 troops who survived the landing. The Battle of Normandy ...

The success of the battles in Normandy was vital for launching further ... the Allies suffered an estimated 4,414 casualties, including 2,501 Americans, and not all bodies could be recovered.

Domenic Simonetti was a proud son of immigrants, a violinist and member of the symphony orchestra in Philly. He won a ...

Casualties continued to mount in the days that followed as forces fought their way inland. At the Normandy American Cemetery, nearly 9,400 white marble headstones stretch across a bluff ...

Many were there to cheer the ever-dwindling number of surviving veterans in their late 90s and older. All remembered the ...