On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, became the largest amphibious military assault the world had ever seen. The success of the operation, called Operation Overlord and most ...

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 – ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Jun 5, 2020 Jun 5, 2020 0 On June 6, 1944, Allies staged the opening invasion of France on a 100-mile front along the Normandy ...

The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II's most closely guarded secrets: Prepare yourselves, he said, for "an ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, 16-year-old Warren Goss was told to get to Mount Royal Boulevard and sell newspapers. Goss, a dyslexic, ...

A 90-year-old World War II veteran is topping the U.K. singles chart with a veterans tribute song. Jim Radford was just 15 years old during when Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy.

The clinic will honor Leonard G. “Bud” Lomell, the late Army Ranger who fought in World War II from the Normandy invasion through the Battle of Bulge.