ROANOKE, Va. – June 6, 1944 is known as D-Day, the day in which Operation Overlord was carried out on the beaches of Normandy. Without a pivotal forecast, however, history may very well have been ...

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 Overlord – ...

Canadian soldiers alight on Juno Beach in France, one of the five beaches Allied soldiers descended upon during D-Day -- 80 years ago this week. June 6 marks 80 years since Allied Forces landed on the ...

Eighty years after it happened, D-Day – the largest land, sea and air invasion ever attempted – still resonates today. With the bold invasion of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944, the Allied forces ...

A top-secret WW2 blueprint for the famous D-Day landings is expected to fetch £100,000 at auction after coming to light after 83 years. The extraordinary dossier, dated July 30, 1943, was so sensitive ...

Eighty years ago this month, British and American military leaders were making final preparations for what was to become the largest seaborn operation in history: Operation Overlord, popularly known ...

IT’S TIME FOR THIS WEEK IN HISTORY SPONSORED BY THE UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM. IN APRIL OF 1942, THE PLANNING OF OPERATION BOLERO BEGAN AS PART OF THE PREPARATION FOR OPERATION OVERLORD, WHICH ...

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 ...