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 ...
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 ...
CHICAGO -- Vietnam veteran Jerome Weatherspoon has a special hobby. Weatherspoon, a 67-year-old retiree, reconstructed the battle scene of the Invasion of Normandy, complete with replica war planes ...
D-Day veterans discuss the challenges they faced at the invasion of Normandy. NORMANDY, France, June 5, 2009 — -- You can learn the most interesting things riding on a train. The train I'd chosen ...
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest military invasion in history, a nearly miraculous feat known as D-Day and a major turning point of World War II. Thursday marks the 80th anniversary ...
RICHMOND, Texas -- It's not often you get to meet someone who is 100 years old. Lucian Baskin has lived for a century. He has lived through 18 presidents, the civil rights movement, and the dawn of ...
When Germany overran Greece in 1941, one last Allied stronghold in the region remained: the island of Crete. With the Italian navy unable to guarantee control of the seas, Adolf Hitler turned to his ...