June 6, 2024 marks 80 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 ...

Just like D-Day being meaningless to many people today, so is the name Ernie Pyle. He was considered the voice of the average soldier in World War II. He landed on the beaches of Normandy a few ...

Eighty years after it happened, D-Day – the largest land, sea and air invasion ever attempted – still resonates today. With the bold invasion of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944, the Allied ...

amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day. Answering through his executive assistant, Eisenhower replied that "any amphibious operation has a 'departed date'; therefore, the shortened ...

The invasion, which became known as D-Day, began as Operation Neptune, part of Operation Overlord which was the code name for the Allied invasion of northwest Europe during World War II.

It's a day that changed the course of history, not only in Western Europe but also in the world. Eighty years ago was D-Day. D-Day was the Allies' invasion of Nazi-occupied France during World War II.