Eighty years ago Thursday, the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France was unprecedented in scale and audacity, using the largest-ever armada of ships, troops, planes and vehicles to ...

He was there at the start of D-Day, the biggest military invasion of all time. And he was there at the start of the invasion of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific in World War II.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A powerful piece of history touched down in the “Air Capital of the World” this weekend. Visitors at the Kansas Aviation Museum got a close-up look at a restored C-47 aircraft ...

An exhibit in the MAPS Aviation Museum in Canton, Ohio, highlights what was Army Staff Sgt. Edward Hopko’s duty as a mapmaker during World War II. An aerial photo shows Navy ships near a beach in ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Hector M. Flores served, fought and was wounded in Europe after the D-Day invasion during World War II. But when he returned to Colorado, he didn’t receive a hero’s welcome. Navy ...

On Friday, June 6, Americans and Europeans will observe the 81st anniversary of D-Day, the joint Allied invasion of France that led to the eventual end of World War II and the toppling of Nazi leader ...

SOUTH HADLEY — While the world was honoring U.S. and allied troops on the 81st anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France, this month, a Holyoke priest was in a small French chapel paying tribute to a ...