The 86-year-old has only recently begun telling his story after decades of silence, as France prepared to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. “People weren’t interested.

World War Wisdom 77 Years After D-Day: A Legacy That Still Echoes Posted: April 7, 2025 | Last updated: April 7, 2025 77 years after Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, we pause to ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ivor D. Thornton, 34, landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy in the second wave of the D-Day invasion on June 6, ...

Nevertheless, soldiers' words relay the many emotions experienced by the men who fought on D-Day. Many of the details of the landing were only learned by friends and relatives long after the ...

Twenty years after planning the Allied invasion of Normandy, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter that asked him how the June 6, 1944, amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day.

The Germans took the bait so much that even after D-day they held many of their best troops in the Calais area expecting a second invasion. The traditional allied death toll for the whole of D-day ...

General Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) was the Supreme Commander of Allied forces during the campaign following D-Day. Following the war he went on to become President of the United States of ...

Others distributed comfort items to men who lost their personal possessions in the landing operations. By four days after D-Day, American nurses and Red Cross hospital workers arrived to staff the ...