The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

On December 16, 1944, eighteen American soldiers stood alone against 500 German paratroopers during the opening hours of the ...

On the 6th of June 1944, D-Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That day, over 130,000 Allied soldiers stormed the ...

The Longest Day, starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda, chronicles the D-Day invasion of Normandy, from both the Allied and German perspectives.

This World War II film from the 1970s features a star cast including Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland and Jean ...

Pilots weren’t the only ones strapped into planes, nor were they the only ones parachuting from open plane doors. Since the ...

The wartime drama starring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Donald Sutherland, is now available to stream for free on BBC ...

Did the Soviets really build a tank with wings? Discover the true story of the Antonov A-40, a bizarre 1942 experiment that ...

World War II produced some of the most recognizable military weapons ever made, but few were more important than the rifles issued to ordinary soldiers. Millions of troops depended on these firearms ...

One of Britain’s last surviving members of the 6th Airborne Division which took part in D Day has died aged 99. Roy Burr was one of just a handful of its troops left. The 6th Airborne Division was ...

Though the galleries devoted to D-Day will be temporarily closed, the myriad major exhibits in the rest of the sprawling museum remain open.