Military historian John C. McManus will examine the Allied invasion of Normandy through the experiences of the 1st Infantry Division during a free program July 23 at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton ...

It was 82 years ago that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's chief meteorologist made one of the most important weather forecasts of all time.

Death loomed all around the young U.S. Navy sailor as his ship approached the shores of Nazi-occupied France just after daybreak on June 6, 1944, what would forever after be known as D-Day.

(CNN) — June 6, 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. The invasion – codenamed ...

It's been a lifetime, literally, since the invasion of the beaches at Normandy in France in 1944. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the event historians often refer to as the beginning of the ...

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, ...

The new movie, based on writer and actor David Haig's 2014 play, dramatizes the tensions between military leaders and meteorologists in the lead up to the Allied invasion of Normandy.