Day, June 6, 1944, near Colleville-sur-Mer, France, stands as one of the defining acts of bravery of the Normandy invasion.
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Searching for the Missing Footage of D-Day

Day, previously unseen combat footage from the Normandy invasion has been rediscovered at the U.S. National Archives.
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 ...
Pfc. Nicholas Hartman, killed on Omaha Beach in 1944, was identified through DNA analysis and honored with a hero's burial at ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called ...
He was there at the start of D-Day, the biggest military invasion of all time. And he was there at the start of the invasion of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II.
DENVER (KDVR) — Hector M. Flores served, fought and was wounded in Europe after the D-Day invasion during World War II. But when he returned to Colorado, he didn’t receive a hero’s welcome. Navy ...
CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Seventy years ago this Friday, a 50 mile stretch on the beaches of Normandy would be painted red. The D-Day invasion would change the course of world war two and ultimately ...
No one is allowed ashore." The secret was D-Day — the June 6, 1944, invasion of Nazi-occupied France with the world’s largest-ever sea, land and air armada. It punctured Adolf Hitler’s fearsome ...
An art installation dedicated to British servicemen who died on D-Day is fully booked for viewings. The 1,475 life-sized ...
On this 81st anniversary of D-Day, the Pentagon has shared a powerful connection between the Vatican and the U.S. military. Pope Leo XIV's father, Louis Marius Prevost, served as a Navy officer during ...