The costs were staggering: the Normandy campaign resulted in more than 200,000 dead, wounded, and missing on the Allied side, ...

Since then, they have attended a number of ceremonies including a wreath laying at a cemetery for American war dead. They’ve been in Normandy since ... a lookout for German submarines.

Before Daniel Scharfenberg had even left New Orleans for his trip to France, a monsoon hit the city out of nowhere, flooding the area he was visiting, soaking everyone and everything. He joked ...

during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army ...

Over three million service personnel were involved and it all hinged on the success of the Normandy Landings on D-Day. If the German troops were able to prevent the initial landings, the campaign ...

In 1984, on the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy ... In that proposition were the heroes of the war best remembered, the living and the dead, their destinies inextricably connected ...

Luce began the war as a lieutenant in the 82nd ... On May 8th, the 82nd Airborne ordered the German civilians from the community to bury the dead in the gardens in front of the town's imposing ...

It’s a few days before Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy ... the German lines allows Murder Company to fit the usual rhythms and firefights of a grand-scale war movie into ...