Ted Varley, 90, who was a signaller from 3 Division who landed in the first wave on D-day on Sword Beach has a toast at the Caen Memorial Garden on June 5, 2014 in Normandy, France. Getty Images ...

Most Americans visiting France's D-Day sites focus, understandably, on Omaha Beach — where thousands died on June 6, 1944. But if you're planning to visit Normandy, don't miss the other American ...

HUNDREDS GATHER AT DAWN AT UTAH BEACH TO MARK D-DAY'S 80TH ANNIVERSARY. UTAH BEACH, France — Hundreds of people, some in WWII-era uniforms, arrived before dawn to stretch out across the now ...

Join me, WW2 Wayfinder on a powerful journey through Drop Zone C, where the legendary 101st Airborne Division parachuted into ...

D-Day beach cafe 'refused to serve British soldiers' as owner claims it was ... "This cafe at Vierville Draw at Omaha Beach Normandy refused to serve my British Army soldiers ... Now, Creperie la ...

Retropolis On D-Day, 25 doomed men on a small ship never made it to Omaha Beach. Eighty years ago, four men from a tiny Kansas high school and 21 others died in an inferno at Normandy.

SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France -- In the midst of the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, Adm. James G. Foggo III, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa (CNE-A), and the U.S. Navy Memorial teamed ...

See also: D-Day Landings: Emotional Scenes As World War II Veterans Return to Normandy for 74th Anniversary This Newsweek slideshow features then-and-now images of the landing sites in Normandy.

The D-Day beach landings Allied troops began landing on the coast of France at 06:30 on D-Day. The 50-mile stretch of Normandy coast was divided into five landing zones: Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah ...

A villa in the French town of Bernieres-sur-Mer is thought to be the first building captured by allies on D-Day. Eighty years later it’s now a place of pilgrimage.

OMAHA BEACH, Normandy — A blustery and chilly June wind from the English Channel buffets tourists milling about in goose-bumped awe on Omaha Beach, just below the massive and overwhelmingly ...