PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - World leaders spoke solemnly on the 80th anniversary of D-Day about the tens of thousands of Americans who stormed Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, charging into German gunfire in ...

American inventions proved their worth in the Normandy campaign that began on June 6, 1944. They allowed Allied forces to shoot, move and communicate in the arduous D-Day landings. From floating ...

Updates will soon come to New Orleans' World War II Museum.

By being able to get forces into Normandy, the Allies were able to begin their advance into northwest Europe. Though World War II lasted nearly another year in Europe, the success of Operation ...

“They were brave, they were resolute, they were ready,” President Joe Biden said Thursday at the Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach, one of five along France’s northern coast where ...

Benjamin Patterson and Sonja Czarnecki, a student-teacher duo from Bishop Seabury Academy, visited Normandy, France to honor a World War II veteran from Lawrence. When Benjamin Patterson stood at the ...

In August 1944, during the final stages of the Normandy campaign in World War II, a single American battalion was ordered to hold an exposed hill against a massive German counterattack personally ...

(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 ...

(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 ...