(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The ...

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NORMANDY, France -- As the clock struck midnight on June 6, 1944, the droning hum of aircraft engines broke the quiet stillness of the dark hours. A young girl, 5-year-old Danièle "Dany" Patrix ...

The Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, broke the spine of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall and opened the decisive Western Front, ...

“D-Day: The Unheard Tapes,” is a two-part documentary that looks at the invasion of Normandy through the voices and words of those who fought in it. “D-Day: The Unheard Tapes” relives the Allied ...

Veterans gathered Friday in Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment of World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler's regime.Along the ...

GROVEPORT, Ohio — Thursday marks 80 years since 160,000 Allied forces landed in Normandy for the June 6, 1944 D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France. One of those soldiers was Johnstown native Don ...

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 ...

Chaminade High School students prayed for hours at the gravesite of a long-forgotten alum who heroically died after the D-Day invasion of Normandy during a recent trip to France. Officials at the Long ...

(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. (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D ...