As the Allies prepared for D-Day, they ran a huge web of deception operations to confuse Germany about where the real invasion would fall. In the Mediterranean, Operation Zeppelin was designed to ...
In August 1943, American and Canadian troops landed on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands expecting another brutal fight against Japanese defenders. After the costly battle on Attu, Allied commanders had ...
Fewer than half-a-million of the 16 million Americans who fought to liberate Europe in World War II are still alive today, and on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion an even smaller number are ...
The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already begun hours earlier. Thousands of American and British paratroopers were ...