The numbers are staggering: 160,000 Allied troops. Five thousand ships and 13,000 aircraft. All to take a heavily fortified 50-mile stretch of French shoreline, a herculean effort to reclaim a ...

June 6, 1944, is a day forever etched in history — the beginning of the end of World War II. It was when about 160,000 Allied troops, the largest seaborne invasion ever, stormed the beaches of ...

Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of the historic D-Day operation. In the midst of World War II on June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in Nazi-occupied France. More than ...

OMAHA BEACH, Normandy - On June 6, 1944, the largest air, land and sea invasion in military history took place on the Normandy coast of France. The Battle of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day and ...

Thousands of American and Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France. Now decades later, many are still remembering the sacrifices made that day. Like it is for so many others, Scott Barker ...

President Biden late Monday issued a statement on the 78th anniversary of D-Day, after failing to mention the historic day in any of his earlier remarks. His tweet is timestamped at 8:45 p.m. ET, by ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — The June 6, 1944, D-day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to punch a ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, also known as D-Day. The operation is known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, involving 150,000 land, air and sea ...

This story was reported by Jasmine Sellars, Nicholas Spangler, Nicolas Villanil, and Nayden Villorente. It was written by Spangler. Across the world and at ceremonies on Long Island Thursday, ...