Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

June 6, 2024, will mark the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history. Here’s one soldier’s account of what it was like to land on Omaha Beach during the fierce ...

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. The invasion – codenamed Operation Overlord – ...

NORMANDY, France (KLTV) - On day four of their trip abroad, the Longview High School Choir visited Omaha Beach, one of five sites in Normandy involved in the initial D-Day invasion. Omaha Beach was ...

This is the true story of a Delaware native who took part in what historian Stephen Ambrose called the most critical day of the 20 th Century: June 6, 1944 — D-Day. Charles J. Noonan grew up in the ...

On June 6, 1944, after nearly five years of a global war, the invasion of Europe began behind the largest landing force the world had ever seen. The invasion, which became known as D-Day, began as ...