Just hours after landing on Sword Beach, British forces expected to push south toward Caen, but they hadn’t counted on ...

It’s long been considered the final “red flag” for Beijing’s intentions to invade Taiwan. Now, satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges ...

Former commando Pat Churchill stands in the map room where the D-Day landing beaches are marked at Southwick House near Portsmouth in England, on June 2, 2014.

His longest day. Walt Ehlers. June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Here’s one soldier’s account of what it was like to ...

Utah Beach landing. Military branch: 12th Infantry Regiment, Fourth Infantry Division, U.S. Army. What happened: Salinger was drafted into the Army in 1942 and became an officer with the Counter ...

World War II veterans joined heads of state and others Thursday for poignant ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day. The Allied invasion, which began on ...

"It’s hard to believe but I saw that beach bounce. I could just see it vibrating," said Don Buswell of Ogden, who was aboard a landing craft at Utah Beach on D-Day, in a 2005 interview with KUED.

A WWII veteran holds a bottle of sand from Omaha Beach in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, north-western France, on June 5, 2019, as part of D-Day commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of ...

Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of the French commandos who stormed the Normandy beaches defended by Hitler's troops in 1944, on Tuesday joined President Emmanuel Macron at a seafront ...

A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. The company disembarked from their landing craft at around 7 a.m ...

Satellite photos have revealed the construction of a new fleet of D-Day-style landing barges. X/@AllSourceA/X “The barges are reminiscent of the Mulberry Harbours built for the allied invasion ...