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.

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 ...

Now, Creperie la Falaise owner Florent Neveur told the Daily Mail that there was a misunderstanding as the cafe was too busy to serve the group, and that the tour guide's claims that they were ...

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.

U.S. veteran Jake M. Larson talks to a girl who wears an American flag around her neck during a gathering in preparation of the 79th D-Day anniversary in La Fiere, Normandy, France, Sunday, June 4 ...

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 ...

OMAHA BEACH, France — As young soldiers, they waded through breaking waves and gunfire to battle the Nazis. Now bent with age, the dwindling number of World War II veterans joined a new ...

Their mission was to complete a secret, full-scale practice of the upcoming D-Day invasion of Utah Beach in Nazi-occupied France – part of an operation in which 160,000 Allied troops landed ...

Hicks spent 16 months building a 24-foot scale replica of Juno Beach — Canada’s D-Day landing point — and now on this busy Thursday afternoon, ... heads towards Juno Beach on D-Day June 6, 1944.

On June 6, 1944 − D-Day − World War II's invasion of Normandy, codenamed Operation Overlord, got underway. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, told ...

UTAH BEACH, France — Hundreds of people, some in WWII-era uniforms, arrived before dawn to stretch out across the now peaceful sands of Utah Beach, one of the five Allied landing zones on D-Day ...