Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France became the largest amphibious military assault the world has ever seen.

The body of Private Mack Homer, United States Army, arrived at Jacksonville International Airport on Friday. His remains were recently identified in France where he died on July 7, 1944.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

With German forces having heavily fortified the French coast and every French port by the middle of 1944 during World War II, the Allies faced the difficult problem of how to unload all the troops, ...

U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf as they land at Normandy in the days following the Allies' D-Day invasion of occupied France in June 1944. The Allies built two offshore ports to supply the ...

The largest amphibious invasion in history was launched on June 6, 1944 when Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe from the grip of Nazi Germany. For this year’s 79th ...

Friday, June 6, marks 81 years since the allied forces of World War II stormed the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day. The amphibious assault – codenamed Operation Overlord – involved landing ...

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 ...

Traveling by ship across the English Channel the night of June 12, 1944, my father was below deck with the vehicle he would soon drive ashore at Utah Beach to face combat in World War II at last, ...

OMAHA BEACH, Normandy - On June 6, 1944, the largest air, land and sea invasion in military history took place on the Normandy coast of France. The Battle of Normandy, often referred to as D-Day and ...

Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of the historic D-Day operation. In the midst of World War II on June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in Nazi-occupied France. More than ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, also known as D-Day. The operation is known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, involving 150,000 land, air and sea ...