The Allied forces launched mission D-Day on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. It was the largest amphibious ...

Roy Cadman landed at Sword Beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944. He was part of the relieving force for Major John Howard's 6th ...

CARENTAN, France — In an open 1940s military vehicle rumbling through the Normandy countryside, Staff Sgt. Nathan Selby and ...

After the Invasion of Normandy in June of 1944 and the Allied push into mainland Europe, it was necessary to capture more ...

West Australians have gathered to pay tribute to the state's last World War II prisoner of war, Arthur Leggett, who died last month aged 106.

Chris Bullock The former airfield has a memorial that remembers the paratroopers who died taking ... "dropping these supplies behind German lines, right into the enemy's heart, without aircraft ...

BERLIN - The German government on Wednesday warned against Russian efforts to "instrumentalise" events marking the 80th anniversary of World War Two after the Russian ambassador to Berlin attended ...

German government warns against Russian propaganda at WW2 events Russian ambassador attends Seelow commemoration despite German caution Ukrainian envoy criticizes Russian presence at war victim ...

British-led French SAS soldiers were dropped into the German-occupied eastern Netherlands ... were dropped above cloud cover. The French paratroopers were led by the British army's Brig Mike ...

Two German paratroopers, who had been brought to the camp six days before, slipped out at night by climbing over a fence. They were caught hours later, about eight miles from the airport ...