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Lest We Forget! Take a look back at the largest seaborne invasion in history and the brave soldiers who contributed to an Allied victory in World War II after the D-Day landings in Normandy on June…

See photos from the D-Day invasion, which proved to be a turning point in World War II.

For the 70th commemoration of the renowned D-day Invasion, which is to take place in June 2014, a group of parachutists called the Round Canopy Parachuting Team, has set its goals at assembling as many as possible still flying Douglas C-47 Dakota’s at the airport of Cherbourg, Maupertus.

World War II-era maps conjure a period in history when titanic forces were on the move, or were stuck in brutal stalemate, all over the globe.

No one can say with certainty where the name "Jeep" first came to mean the all-wheel-drive truck the U.S. Army needed urgently for World War II. Theories...

A-Z of Normandy Veterans Click on the links below to view the obituary pages, for each nationality, of Veterans who served in, over, or along the coast of Normandy, France, during the Second World …

Codenamed Operation Overlord, the invasion began on June 6, 1944, also known as D‑Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region during World War II. The operation was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in history and has been called the beginning of the end of war in Europe.

To mark the anniversary of the Allied invasion of Western Europe on June 6, 1944, one Twitter account is sharing the events exactly as they happened exactly ...

There are still more than 1.7 million Americans alive who served in World War II, but that number is dwindling.