Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western Europe from Nazi Germany. The D-Day invasion took place on June 6, 1944, nearly a year before Germany ...

Even on D-Day itself, Allied planes dropped dummy paratroopers and tin foil to confuse German radar and maintain the idea the invasion would come further north. The real invasion plans were kept ...

He was in Germany when the news came of the invasion. When the D-Day forces landed, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was asleep. None of his generals dared order reinforcements without his permission ...

But on D-Day it was one of the first ships of the British and Allied invasion force that unleashed fury on the forces of Nazi Germany that lay just across the Channel. If the invasion was ...

D-Day veterans Bernard Morgan (left), 100 ... Though they were expecting an invasion, German military leaders believed the initial attacks were only a diversionary tactic. Getty Images A deception ...

The modern-day aerial footage is accompanied by interviews with World War II veterans, mixed with archival footage of the June 6, 1944 “D-Day” invasion, along with newly created maps and photo ...

D-Day remembrance: World War II veterans return to Normandy on 80th anniversary of invasion. It would be more than four years ...

D-Day also offers a powerful counterpoint in the inability of the German military to respond effectively to the invasion despite brilliant planning for this eventuality. A landing craft disembarks ...

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 punch a hole in Adolf ...

Eisenhower speaks with men of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Division, on June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day invasion. Omar Bradley (1893-1981) Bradley ...

The Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day was one of the most complex military ... the beginning of the Allied spearhead into German-occupied Europe known as Operation Overlord.