Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the largest naval, air and land operation in history on June 6, 1944, in Normandy, France. Now, a new documentary will immerse viewers into the action of that ...

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June 1944: D-Day plus 18. The battle for France is raging, and the Luftwaffe is still a deadly force in the skies. But the arrival of the P-51 Mustang changes everything. With long-range ...

On June 6, 1944, or what came to be known as D-Day, Allied troops carried out Operation Neptune—the code name for the landings on the beaches at Normandy. The invasion liberated France from Nazi ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated. June 6 is the anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings, when Allied forces launched a naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France.

This means that D-Day actually stands for ‘Day-Day.’ According to the Royal British Legion , the phrase ‘D-Day’ was used fairly often before the Allied invasion in June 1944.

D-Day proper was on June 6, 1944, ... It wasn’t entirely retro though — photos and footage from Sunday’s jump show the ground reenactors taking photos and filming the jump.

From blood-soaked beaches to the quiet dread before battle, these movies capture the scale, terror, and humanity of June 6, 1944. D-Day – the codename given the to start of the operation – has ...

“So much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.” ..–President Barack ...

What the "D" in D-Day actually stands for has been a source of debate almost from the time that the Allies first landed on the French coast. ... Some have asserted that D-Day, the June 6, 1944, ...

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.

In a July 1944, roundup of newsreel footage of D-Day broadcast in U.S. theaters, TIME called Taylor’s footage from a landing barge under fire on Omaha Beach “The finest shot of all. ...