D-Day In 9 Maps: How Allies Stormed Normandy Beaches. Published Jun 05, ... In total, 160,000 Allied troops, nearly half of whom were from the United States, crossed the English Channel on June 6.

Steven Melnikoff, 104, and Donald Cobb, 99, are veterans of the DDAY invasion, and they're returning to France for ceremonies commemorating the 80th anniversary of the allied attack on the Germans ...

After spending three months escorting troops across the English Channel, Chandler's torpedo boat was transferred to the Adriatic, where it struck a mine and sank April 10, 1945. Nineteen of the 31 ...

More than 150,000 U.S., British and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. A small handful told NPR about their experience.

As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it’s rising again over Normandy beaches where soldiers fought ... freezing cold,” the 54-year-old said as she gazed across the English Channel, tears ...

D-Day veteran George Chandler, who sought to counter sometimes glamorous depictions of the landings by recalling the horrors he witnessed escorting U.S. troops to the beaches of northern France as ...

He survived the Battle of the Bulge and stormed the beaches of Normandy. Now, at 104, he’s still golfing three days a week. There are only good and better days out on the course for Arthur Medeiros.

The English Channel, though only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, has become one of the deadliest routes for migrants seeking to reach the U.K. Treacherous conditions, ...

Donald Cobb, 99, shakes hands with passengers on a ferry boat crossing the English Channel Saturday. He’s traveling to Normandy, France for the 80th anniversary of the DDAY invasion, courtesy of ...

As the sun sets on the D-Day generation, it rose again over Normandy beaches where soldiers fought and died exactly 80 years ago.

British Normandy campaign veteran George Chandler of the Royal Navy speaks to the media and poses in the 'Map Room' which shows the large diagram of the D-Day Invasion, at Southwick army base near ...