80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings in Colleville-sur-Mer PARIS (Reuters) -American, British, Canadian and French leaders will commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday. Here are ...

Five years into World War II, the Allies were squeezing the Nazis from two sides. In Western Europe, Allied forces had managed to slow Adolf Hitler's ruthless expansion across the continent. Meanwhile ...

(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 ...

Eighty years ago Thursday, the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...

A 97-year-old World War II veteran returned to Normandy on the most recent anniversary of the D-Day landings to re-create his parachute jump. Former paratrooper Tom Rice did return to Normandy on June ...

Biden has joined other world leaders and veterans to commemorate the Normandy landings, the Allied forces’ surprise attack that helped liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — ...

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