SAINTE-MÈRE-ÉGLISE, France (Army News Service, June 11, 2014) -- Barely past midnight, in the first moments of June 6, 1944, hundreds of aircraft carrying some 24,000 British and American paratroopers ...

Six weeks after the Allied invasion of Normandy, Operation OVERLORD showed distressing signs of stalemate. More than a million American, British, and Canadian troops had come ashore in France by ...

On June 6, 1944, The Patriot had a message for Adolf Hitler the leader of the Nazi party in Germany. The headline to the left of the masthead said, "GOOD EVENING, Herr Hitler: The Yanks are coming!” ...

On this day in history, the D-Day operation of June 6, 1944, brought together the land, air and sea forces of the Allied armies in what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military ...

U.S. World War II paratrooper veteran Tom Rice, 97 years-old who served with the 101st Airbone, lands during a commemorative parachute jump over Carentan on the Normandy coast U.S. World War II ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information First published in 1921, the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research (JSAHR) is one of the premier journals of military ...

This report was first published on June 8, 1944, after AP journalist Don Whitehead, who became known by his colleagues as “Beachhead Don,” landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day with the 1st ...

The date that we refer to as "D-Day", June 6, 1944, has lived on in infamy as the largest seaborne invasion in history. Over 9,000 Allied soldiers were lost, but the fight was a turning point in the ...

Two veterans who fought in the same Scottish regiment more than 80 years ago are celebrating their 100th birthdays. Douglas Baldwin and George McLeod, who have never met, both served in the King's Own ...

When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian ...