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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.