TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Two weeks before the largest amphibious invasion in military history was launched on D-Day, the U.S. military coordinated an exercise involving air drops over Tyler. According to ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author of "The Americans at D-Day" John McManus discussed how the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 was a team effort among several groups.

"Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called ...

“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 ...

(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 ...

“You are about to embark on the great Crusade toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.” So began General Dwight Eisenhower’s June 6, 1944, D-Day message to ...

Today marks 81 years since the the D-Day landings began on the Normandy beaches of France during World War Two. June 6, 1944, was an important turning point during World War Two and is one of the ...

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...

This story was reported by Jasmine Sellars, Nicholas Spangler, Nicolas Villanil, and Nayden Villorente. It was written by Spangler. Across the world and at ceremonies on Long Island Thursday, ...

D-Day was a pivotal point in World War II and world history. Despite occurring 80 years ago, it is still the largest seaborne invasion in history and is still being analyzed by historians today. Join ...

U.S. President Joe Biden greets U.S. World War II veteran Victor Chaney after French President Emmanuel Macron awarded 11 veterans the Légion d’Honneur at the Normandy American Cemetery during a ...