Some 4,000 Allied troops were killed in the invasion. Goss knows he was one of the lucky ones to make it back home. He traveled to Normandy with his daughter and nephew. Separately, many other ...

but historians estimate between 4,000 and 9,000 men were killed, wounded or missing during the D-Day invasion alone. About 22,000 German soldiers are among the many buried around Normandy.

With Harold's brother Tostig, Hardrada invaded in September 1066. After a victorious battle at Fulford he was killed by Harold's army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge outside York. Fewer than 25 of ...

The invasion began in the early hours of June 6 with a huge aerial and naval bombardment of the target area: a 50-mile ...

Eighty years ago, D-Day — also known as Operation Neptune — was the largest invasion ever assembled. Some 156,000 Allied troops stormed Normandy, France, by sea and air, to liberate Western ...