amphibious assault came to be commonly called D-Day. Answering through his executive assistant, Eisenhower replied that "any amphibious operation has a 'departed date'; therefore, the shortened ...

Every year on June 6, we mourn and remember those who participated in D-Day, the massive military operation that saw the Allied Forces begin the push that would ultimately end World War II.

It's a day that changed the course of history, not only in Western Europe but also in the world. Eighty years ago was D-Day. D-Day was June 6, 1944. D-Day was the Allies' invasion of Nazi-occupied ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...

A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. The company disembarked from their landing craft at around 7 a.m ...