Day commenced. The largest amphibious operation in history marked the start of the liberation of Europe from the Nazis. That ...

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on “D-Day,” beginning the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

The Globe has reported many of the stories of local veterans of World War II. Airmen in the Doolittle Raid on Japan, sailors who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, soldiers who fought in Europe and ...

We revisit the La Fière causeway, one of Normandy’s most critical D-Day battlefields. Between June 6 and 9, 1944, ...

General Lee's Airborne -- Matthew Bunker Ridgway -- Maxwell Davenport Taylor -- War -- The Birth Of American Airborne Divisions -- "Become A Paratrooper!" -- James Gavin -- Sicily and Italy : A Dress ...

Joe Stefaniak was earning $21 a month as an Army private in 1942 when a buddy told him how he could boost his pay by $50. "And all I had to do was jump out of airplanes," he recalled with a laugh. The ...

On the night of June 5, 1944, as tens of thousands of Allied troops prepared to storm the beaches of Normandy, a handful of British Special Air Service commandos were parachuting into Nazi-occupied ...

Guided walks are being offered at a former World War Two airfield to mark the anniversary of the D-Day landings. RAF North Witham in Lincolnshire was home to US paratroopers who were some of the first ...

I first went to Normandy in 1974. I was a 27-year-old news photographer shooting the French presidential election, and my ...

Widely seen as a turning point in World War II, the June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day, has long been the subject of viral rumors with varying levels of legitimacy. As the ...

U.S. Army Captain Floyd “Ben” Schwartzwalder jumped out of the C-47 Skytrain shortly after 3 o’clock in the morning on June 6, 1944, D-Day. His parachute opened with a sudden jerk in the darkened sky ...