In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder I take a look at the incredible Airborne Museum in the Normandy town of Sainte Mère Église, ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

D-Day had begun. The Russians were making headway ... ingenious invention and the mounting of the largest sea and airborne invasion the world had ever seen. The Allied commanders faced a ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

In 1945, an attempt was made to identify the unknown remains, but the effort was unsuccessful, the DPAA said. Analysts with ...

D-Day was a critical step in ending the war ... it was too late Local German commanders reacted quickly to the airborne invasion, calling for support from the 21st Panzer division which was ...

provides a straight-shooting account of how parachutists and gliders from the 82nd Airborne slipped behind Axis lines in Normandy just before the start of the D-Day invasion in June 1944.

On June 6, 1944, a day etched in the annals of World War II, the D-Day invasion marked a critical turning point in the Allied efforts to liberate Europe from Germany. On June 6, 1944, a day etched ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...

A Missouri S&T history professor’s book about U.S. soldiers’ experience on Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion of Normandy ...

Jun 5, 2024 Jun 5, 2024 Updated Sep 11, 2024 ALTON — Eighty years ago today (Thursday), four Granite Staters lost their lives in the Allies’ D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France, a sacrifice ...